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Florida News Site To Stream Turnout At The Polls Online

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

The Sayfie Review, a Florida politics news aggregator and editorial site, is live-streaming turnout from seven different precincts on Election Day. The site's goal is to gauge turnout among key demographic groups that both candidates need to win the battleground state.

The precincts the reporters will monitor and do interviews from are located in Broward county, Gainseville, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee and Tampa.

"We have carefully selected a number of precincts across the state that will give you a sense of what turnout is like among different demographic groups throughout the Sunshine State," says Jordan Raynor, the site's proprietor in a promotional video.

The reporters will be counting the number of people who show up to vote, and will be armed with early voting statistics from each precinct.

Barack Obama needs the extra votes from minorities, students and new voters to deliver the 27 electoral votes from Florida, which polls show is a toss-up state.

A third of Florida's voters and almost 40 percent of the state's independent voters live along the I-4 highway that cuts across the center of the state, so it will be of particular interest to get a gist of what the mood is like on camera next Tuesday.

( Hat tip to TechPresident )

Full post as published by Threat Level on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).