The Web: Where The Election Action Will Be
The Internet will be the place to be as returns pour in on Election Night Tuesday.
CBS News.com will have a host of resources at the ready to enhance your experience, and keep you on top of the very latest.
What's more, explained CNET-TV Senior Editor Natali Del Conte on The Early Show Monday, you can be part of our coverage! Check out the information beneath the image on the left to learn how to e-mail or upload videos, pictures and text to us about what you find at the polling place. It promises to be citizen journalism at its best.
It's all part of an election season that saw candidates taking use of the Web to new heights, Del Conte pointed out, from political fundraising to advertising to social networking to blogging. It used to be that voters would just go home and check the news or read the paper; now they have a constant flow that comes from the Internet, and they even participate in the flow.
CBSNews.com, Del Conte observed, will have up-to-the-minute, in-depth national and state results and analysis. Our pages refresh automatically. There will be a live blog with the latest editorial information from the CBS News desk, and there's already a tool to enable you go through various electoral vote scenarios. We will also have exclusive Katie Couric Webcasts. Exit poll data will be published to each state's page once polls are closed in that state. What's more, we'll have widgets available for use on blogs, other Web sites, etc. Available for use on blogs, other Websites, etc. Anyone can grab the code from our site.
In addition, Del Conte invites you to make use of her Twitter page.
Other sites Del Conte says you might want to check out include:
Google Maps Voting: Shows your polling location, what information you should know about voting in your area. All you do it plug in your address. Regular Google Maps has information about electoral vote estimates by state, as well as about various states' election laws, such as those covering getting time off from work to vote.
Yahoo Election Dashboard: Has aggregate news feeds, top blogs, voter demographics by state, so you can know the things that are impacting each state, and more. This is another one that enables you to create scenarios based on various state results.