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Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
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It's over... that was quick comment [] 8:59:18 PM 
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Things are running really fast. Fox has 41% of the vote counted, Barbara with a 68% margin. comment [] 8:23:22 PM
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Ok, now Fox is catching up reporting 23% of precincts in (opposed to 12% on the Sec State site). Looks like a 60% victory for Barbara. Got metro, south Georgia counties in and the trends are the same. comment [] 8:02:56 PM
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And, the hits keep coming, 9% of precincts reported in 15 minutes. The surprise of the evening is the Sec State site is ahead of the Fox 5 site. Guess someone is sleeping at the switch. comment [] 7:47:02 PM
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Well, well, well, Another county enters the 21st century. Athens-Clarke County has live results http://www.athensclarkecounty.com/elections/results_p02r.html, already posted at this time. Two down, 157 to go. comment [] 7:32:45 PM
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Ok, this will certainly be a trial by fire. I am now in my alter ego sitting in the war room, as it is, for a statewide race for school superintendent. My job is simple. Download results as they come in, pop the numbers in to a spreadsheet to look at trends, and see what happens. So, I have the only county that presents real time results in one window (Cobb County - http://www.cobbcounty.org/elections/09_10_02/results.html) which executes an applet. I have to get the other 158 counties via the Secretary of State site, but can monitor the AP stringers, who generally report quicker, on the Fox 5 site (http://fox5atlanta.com/elections/). The rest is just quick fingers to drag in data, convert to text and the populate the spreadsheet (yea, there has to be a more elegant way, but this is good enough). So, it's 7:20 -- results should be coming in soon. comment [] 7:21:28 PM
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Dirty Laundry, Online for All to See. By posting court records on the Internet, the county clerk in Cincinnati is raising a Pandora's box of privacy issues. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Technology] Here we have an excellent example of the 19th century clashing with the 21st. Unless otherwise ordered, filings with our courts have always been open for public inspection. Such "sunshine" is an important part of keeping our courts fair. Now comes the internet "exposing" all these files to anyone with a browser. And, we see an uprising to change the rules because access is now just a click away (instead of riding the horse to the square and asking the clerk personally to view the file). The article discusses the concept of "practical obscurity" as one reason why no one protested the "openness" of their court records in the past. The one-click method definitely defeats such a concept. But, if you really believe in the principle that policy should not be customized by the introduction of the internet, then why change? comment [] 12:09:19 PM
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