New Alabama Election System

For those of us who follow elections, we rely on AP and other sources to find and correlate election results on election night. No more, as Alabama has tested a new system that will allow the Secretary of State to report election results online as they are received. They anticipate using the new system during the November elections.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/new_alabama_election_system_to.html

Elections officials have announced plans to launch a rapid new online vote reporting-system statewide for November's elections, following a largely successful test during Tuesday's primary runoffs.

The Election Night Reporting system is billed by the Secretary of State's Office as a way to bring Alabama elections "into the 21st century." It is expected to offer voting results, turnout information and possibly precinct-by-precinct data, all online and updated regularly through the night after polls close.

This is a rather obvious thing to do, I'm afraid.


I mean, the Legislature has had a system in place for YEARS now that allows people to look at bills and what action has (and by extension, has NOT) been taken on them. So delivering election results online in real-time seems a rather obvious thing to do.

But far be it for me to discourage something like this. It's all going to depend on how it is presented online, of course, but I am interested in seeing what they have come up with.