Election Night 1988, I spent the night in the backroom of the Mercer County, West Virginia courthouse.
My newspaper colleague - the great Leskie Pinson - brought voting numbers from each precinct and I fed the information over the phone to our newsroom.
It's how AP has collection election results for years.
Tonight starts a better way in Wisconsin.
Ace of Spades has its election headquarters - bringing the results faster than before. Because they aren't depending on newspapers who need to work on their own stories before moving the information along.
The key to their success?
JohnE, our photoshop extraordinaire, was just such a guy, and has developed the
page you will soon be refreshing like a pack of rabid dogs.
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