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58. Bloomberg: Tweets Alert Virginia Vote-Counters to Mistakes in Race

Tweets Alert Virginia Vote-Counters to Mistakes in Race
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis - http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/tweets-alert-virginia-vote-counters-to-mistakes-in-race.html
November 13, 2013 12:00 AM EST

A day after he took to Twitter last week to question the vote-count in the Virginia attorney general race, an e-mail from a top state official popped into David Wasserman’s inbox.

Wasserman, a political analyst with encyclopedic knowledge of Virginia’s voting patterns, figured he was in for a tirade. In the aftermath of the Nov. 5 election, he had been combing through the state’s ballot count and posting Twitter messages about problems and discrepancies.

“I was expecting them to say, ‘Stop denigrating our electoral process.’ Instead they said, ‘I want to thank you for the public service you’re doing’,” Wasserman, the House Editor at the Washington-based nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said in an interview.

Virginia’s cliffhanger of an attorney general’s race is the first in which Twitter (TWTR), the micro-blogging social media platform, has played a prominent part in the vote certification, and it may offer a model for how close elections play out in the age of social networking. .............