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Election 2012: The six year old's electoral college picks

A couple of weeks ago, I was showing my six-year-old son the maps of past presidential election results on 270towin.com. We scrolled through the years, as the nation's early parties came and went, noticed odd split-state results, and then looked at the projected map for this year, with red, blue,...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 6, 2012 5:54 AM

Dinner table discussion: Electoral college, faithless electors, third-party effects, and runoffs

Somehow tonight around the dinner table we got to talking about the Electoral College -- the 538 people who really get to vote for President of the United States. I talked about the two groups of seven Oklahomans that will be on our November 6 ballot -- seven pledged to...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 31, 2012 10:34 PM

Oklahoma's lovely new election night reporting system

Pretty, pretty, pretty, and we get our first look at it tonight. Oklahoma's new election processing system comes with a fancy new election night reporting system, making it possible to see every race in the state -- from town trustee to president -- to see the results for each precinct...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 14, 2012 7:20 PM