Re: [election-services] Newcastle uses Twitter for election result

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@berkeley.edu>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Zelechoski, Peter
<pzelechoski@essvote.com> wrote:
> I think we are all agreeing that our EML results can be used by any end
> point to easily convert the result into whatever display form it chooses.
> That is one of the strengths of a published, open standard -- others know it
> and can use it.  Our US news agencies should be doing the same, if we ever
> got all the players to put out EML.

Yes, and it might make sense to have a gallery of example transforms,
etc. useful for things like Twitter.  For example, widget-based
results reporting would catch fire in blog circles if elections
offices published reporting feeds. best, Joe