Amid Hawaii delays, the Internet turned to a Google doc for caucus results

[n2doc]

Saturday marked the first time Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders swept a full round of caucuses, defeating front-runner Hillary Clinton in all three of the day's presidential contests.

But when the mainstream media was nearly silent on his victory, voters took the electoral process into their own hands.

Overnight, a Google document built by a handful of strangers became the go-to source for the caucus results. Its creators were the first to project Sanders' victory, as the mainstream media waited on stalling, overwhelmed caucus organizers.

As organizers in Hawaii scrambled to gather results, Alec Salisbury compiled his own set of stats from his computer in his Ithaca College dorm. With a group of three to 10 strangers, the 20-year-old college student broke the story of Sanders' landslide victory.



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[cantbeserious]

1. The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks And Their Media Minions Will Do Anything Possible

To suppress good news about Bernie.

[ALBliberal]

2. That is so cool and exemplifies the direction of how we get our news! Nt

[noretreatnosurrender]

3. Great Job!

They did a great job! I couldn't stay up until the corporate media made the announcement around 4 a.m. but I saw Salisbury's reports on Twitter.

[Wilms]

4. Heh! Their work circulated here lst night.

Good on them!

[FlatBaroque]

5. This is delightful. I had wondered how we could use crowdsourcing to overcome

the corrupt media. I knew a couple of millenials would figure it out. SO happy to see this. It will be the model of future of future election monitoring. The people's revolution has begun.

[tk2kewl]

6. Open source the vote!

http://p2pfoundation.net/Open-Source_Everything_Manifesto

[ljm2002]

7. VERY nice to see the story on USAToday...

...it will get a lot of eyeballs that might not otherwise have seen it.

K&R

[suffragette]

8. Very accurate, too!

And a nice double check on results.
Much harder to change results if they are already sourced and in the public eye.