Election 2007 Primary Results -- UPDATED

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As announced as an update to the previous article, the Ogden City IT Division will be making available tonight a web page-based site feed, with real-time updates of today's election results, as they roll in, straight from the "counting room."

We've previewed this web project this afternoon; and it really is quite cool. It's also much more robust than a simple vote tally:

In the left column you'll find the names of each candidate running for each contested municipal office, displayed with an assigned color and the current vote tally.

In the right column you'll find a city map, laid out by consolidated voter districts. Once all ballots have been counted in any consolidated district, the district "lights up" on the map, in the color corresponding to that candidate who got the most votes.

To save wear and tear on your mouse buttons, the page automatically refreshes at 30 second intervals, and displays the current results for each office, in a rotating loop.

Very cool, as we said.

A Weber County Forum Tip O' the Hat to all those smart folks in the Ogden City IT Division.

The real-time site feed is available here.

Pull up your barca-loungers® and grab your popcorn, gentle readers.

And don't forget to return to Weber County Forum with your ever-intelligent comments and observations. Thanks to the folks in the Boss Godfrey's IT Division, we Emerald City political junkies are obviously in for an interesting evening.

Update 9/12/07 11:25 a.m. MT: Rather than interrupt the interesting post-primary discussion that's happening within the comments thread below, we link today's three Northern Utah print articles, which do a post-mortem examination of yesterday's primary results. Be sure to read Ace Reporter Schwebke's in-depth interview of unsuccessful mayoral candidate Doyle Sexton; and please do not miss Jeff DeMoss's council-race "journalistic masterpiece," wherein Mr. DeMoss limits his interviews and quotes to the Godfrey shills.

The best of the lot, and most welcome relief from the neoCON Sanduskey Suits and Std-Ex Godfrey Shills, of course, is this morning's Kristen Moulton article, wherein she scoops the Standard-Examiner yet again, demonstrating an actual ability to do arithmetic -- putting it in print for the first time that erstwhile two-term mayoral incumbent, Boss Godfrey, garnered only a pathetic 40% of yesterday's vote. We've also compiled the final vote tallies on one page, for gentle readers who would like to do their own "confirming" calculations.