*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** I was trying to login to listen to the CBC around 8:30 EST to check out the news coverage of the Canadian elections when I found this at <http://cbc.ca/audio.html>: Thanks for coming to cbc.ca to listen to the audio from CBC Radio. Tonight it will not be available from 7:00 pm ET until 10:00 pm ET. This is due to regulations set up by Elections Canada for today's election. Everything will be back to normal when all of the polls in Canada are closed. Very interesting. Imagine trying that in the United States - might have change our election outcome! You might want to check out the various linked from my recent Canada post <http://www.egroups.com/message/do-wire/747> and here is more on part of the Internet being turned off in Canada tonight from <http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/results.html>. Steven Clift Democracies Online Election 2000 Results From: http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/results.html Following the results unfold on election night is one of most fun things someone interested in politics can do. For the 2000 Federal Elections, there are a variety of ways in which you can keep up to date. Be aware, however, that recent changes made to the Election Act prohibit someone in one electoral district from "transmitting" the results to someone else in a riding where the polls have not yet closed. As a result you may experience a delay in discovering results until after 10 pm EST, when the voting will have ended across the nation. The most authoritative site for election results will be Elections Canada, whose site will provide a number of options for you to view the results. National and provincial results will be provided, but you will also have the option of customizing the screen and viewing up to 144 separate tables of results of areas of particular interest to you. In a novel move, Elections Canada will also e-mail you the election night's preliminary results for you to analyze in a database on your own computer. A regularly updated map of election results will also be available from the National Atlas project at Natural Resources Canada. The main media elections sites will also provide results as election night results come in. For those who just can't wait... Ivan Smith of ElectionResultsCanada.com plans to defy the ban on early publication of election results. He is also offering updates by e-mail, pager, or cell phone. November 27 update: Smith's ISP provider appears to be blocking access to this site. Election results will also be available from Radio Canada International, which plans to carry a live election night broadcast between 2 and 5 UTC (9-12 EST). Radio Canada International broadcasts live on the Internet in RealPlayer format. You can listen at 16K or at 32K data streams, depending on your Internet connection - faster is better! RCI's usual broadcast mode is by radio on Short Wave frequencies - check the Technical Schedule for frequencies for specific language broadcasts, times, and continents. You should note that RCI alternates English and French broadcast periods. You can also try your luck with early results that may be broadcast on the RealAudio broadcasts of CBC St. John's and CBC Halifax. November 27 update: CBC appears to be blocking the Internet broadcast of the local stations this evening until 10pm EST!! ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
