THE AVE WILL PUBLISH THE LINK AS SOON AS WE GET IT!
Slate On Election Day, Slate will partner with a startup called VoteCastr to gather and publish voter-turnout information in a few key states, along with analysis of what that turnout suggests for results in the states we track and for the likely outcome of the election overall.
JULIA TURNER, Editor
Why publish this information? VoteCastr’s technique is the same one campaigns use to track voter activity on Election Day, gathering information that they use to direct last-minute campaign resources, lobby voters, and prepare for the result to come. Making similar data available to our readers will help level the playing field.
And making information available is what journalists are supposed do. As things stand, journalists on Election Day act against their instincts, colluding to keep readers in the dark, based on unsupported ideas about the utility and virtues of an information void. (The notion of keeping the hours of Election Day sacrosanct from the intrusion of voter information seems even more illogical in 2016, when you consider how widely early voting has been embraced. The voter who puts a ballot in the mail in October hardly does so in an information void.)
We will be measured and precise in how we frame and present the information; we won’t be calling Florida for Hillary at 11 a.m., or calling any states at all. We’ll simply be taking the unprecedented step of showing you Election Day as the insiders see it. It’s your election, after all.