January 19, 2010

Mass. Curiosity



Eight hours prior to the polls closing The boston Globe website posted the following:


Carly Carioli writes:

Boston.com briefly put up this map of the final results of today's election -- some 8 hours before polls closed!

As you can see, over 2 million people voted, with Coakley eking out a 50-49 victory.

The map was fully interactive, so you could roll over and get town-by-town results -- above we show Coakley taking Cohasset 56-43.

They took the map down shortly after I pointed it out on Twitter. But not before we Phoenix troublemakers got the screen shots!

Now, if the final numbers end up matching these, the Republicans may really have reason to question the integrity of the process...

2 comments:

shoo said...

There may be totally innocent explanations. Someone could have faked this and lied about it being on the Globe site. More likely they just had test data in their database and it got inadvertantly posted. Would be interesting to see what they say about it...that would reveal much.

Or course, if this turns out to be tomorrow's report, there is going to be some 'splainin' to do...

Unknown said...

Personally, I see the test data is what was shown.