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Jesse writes "Episode 68 of A VerySpatial Podcast features an interview with Kenneth Martis, co-author of the new book "Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004", about the book and general issues of Electoral Geography."

Michael Muskovin writes "Ottawa County GIS and the Ottawa County Clerk have collaborated to develop an Internet mapping application for publication of real-time election results. Utilizing ES&S voting machines and software recently purchased through a grant by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, data is manipulated by the GIS Department for display to the public. With this new system, news media and interested citizens have the ability to immediately view election results as they are received by the clerk’s office. Decreasing the time from data acquisition to data dissemination is the largest benefit of this application. In addition, users can more easily identify results because of the visual representation of formerly textual data." From a comment on Spatially Adjusted, there's a link to Pollster flash maps. More maps from the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog. And why not the real-time reporting of voting problems.

Konquest writes "The big news today, apart from Britney’s divorce, is the results of the US Midterms Elections that were held Tuesday. Election-time is also a time where geographical information, and by extension, maps. Election after election, media try to improve their way to communicate this information effectively. Let’s review the main maps found over the internet this morning."

Very Spatial and other blogs links to interactive maps about campaign contributions for the U.S. 2008 election [warning, it seems the maps don't work with Firefox]. From this article (including screenshots): "Being the FEC, the map is also not without bureaucratic guidelines. It only includes itemized individual contributions; PAC money or donations under $200 are not reported; and primary and general funds are not separated. Also, money transferred from cong. to WH accounts will be attributed to the state where the cong. cmte was registered -- So, all the “SEN” money that HRC raised from 22101 or 90210 is recorded as contributions out of NY State." See related stories below.

We covered electoral maps quite a few times in the past. The official Google LatLong blog discuss the mapping of where U.S. congressional provisions (or earmarks) are directing funds and links to a USA Today article. The Map Room links to an interactive map of the results of the recent Swiss federal election and links to a new U.S.-oriented site named The Electoral Map. Below I copied some of the previous stories related to elections, including this one on worldwide electoral geography website.