Election Storm Watchers Needed - New Tech Tools!

Here's a guide to download and rename in Internet Explorer. This expands Step 2 in the installation instructions

a) Right click on WebSnapshot.jar link and select 'Save Target As...'
b) Select 'All Files' under Save as type
c) Enter 'WebSnapshot.jar' under File name.
d) Select the dropdown 'Save in' and choose 'Local Disk'
e) Double-click the WebSnapshot folder and click 'Save'

WEB SNAPSHOT 2.1: Added support for CNN exit polls. Extract the attached zip file to your C:\WebSnapshot directory.
http://www.bbvforums.org/docs/tools/WebSnapshot-2.1.zip
See the included urls.txt input file for an example. Next, I plan to add a snapshot summary feature to create spreadsheets of vote counts by snapshot time. This will help create graphs of the incoming voting data, and allow for a visual inspection of the results.

MERGE JOHN HOWARD'S SOUTH DAKOTA COMPENDIUM:
http://www.bbvforums.org/docs/tools/SouthDakotaCounties.html
(From John Howard): Here is the South Dakota Compendium of results sites. Basically there is only one - the SoS, with the exception of Pennington County which is also included here. I've included the addresses of the counties that have web sites, although they are not clickable links. Having visited each one today, I doubt that we'll see results posted on any of them. Please note that these are all results by Precinct for each county, with one file each for Dem and one for Rep voters. The SoS web site is SLOW to produce these results so I wouldn't advise running too many concurrent connections. Since all the SoS results will be of a consistent format, perhaps this can feed into Donovan Levinson's SNAPSHOT tool.

SOUTH DAKOTA UPDATE: WebSnapshot 2.2 including South Dakota http://www.bbvforums.org/docs/tools/WebSnapshot-2.2.zip

Finished adding support for South Dakota precinct results URLs (CERS). Also included is snapshot history report generation. These files end in "-history.csv" and contain all the vote counts by snapshot time. There is an issue where sometimes more than 256 columns are generated (#columns = #precincts * #choices + 1). Excel will only display the first 256 columns. I will add a workaround for this by saving across multiple files in a future release.
Extract the attached zip to your C:\WebSnapshot directory. See included urls.txt input file for an example.

2.2.1: Optimized to deal with URL hangs
click here

(Donovan): I hope to get some useful feedback from users during this last day of primaries. I have made one minor change, and that is to add a time out when downloading URLs, since the CERS URLs sometimes hang for a very long time. The timeout is set to 5 minutes. I will expose this variable and others in a properties file soon.

Also, I have attached two South Dakota input files for tracking the election results:

http://www.bbvforums.org/docs/tools/sd-dem.txt
http://www.bbvforums.org/docs/tools/sd-rep.txt

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