November 03, 2004
The Morning After: ePolitics Buzz Brief
Congratulations! If you're reading this you're still alive, but possibly feeling a little weird like it was a Y2K Armageddon all over again. Computers did not freeze up, explode or send the world into chaos. But, a lot of things did happen on the web in the last 24 hours. Oh yes, and about those e-voting machines.
- Thank you mainstream media for saying bloggers screwed up and gave out inaccurate reports. Some really did. But, I’d just like to remind everyone that many bloggers 'botched' information came from guess who? Mainstream media.
- E-voting was smooth in Maryland but not other regions that were predicting problems. Parts of Florida, Philadelphia, and New Orleans were among the 600 reported glitches. Washingtonpost.com writes that the massive experiment "looks like a success."
- There was a huge surge in web traffic to blogs and especially campaign sites in the final days. JohnKerry.com and GeorgeWBush.com attracted more than 300,000 US visitors on Monday 1 November.
- It looks like Bush won, but votes in Ohio need to be recounted before its official. I think Drudge was the first to call it for Bush around 3:00am this morning.
Posted by Buzz Webster at November 3, 2004 10:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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