Millions of people all over the U.S. will flock to the polls Tuesday to make their vote count; and later, everyone will be glued to the screen to find out how the country has voted. Pretty much all the big news organizations are streaming their live coverage online, so you don’t need to have cable — or you can watch multiple feeds at the same time — to see who is calling which state first.
Check out our ultimate guide to watching the elections online below:
- Polls are closing in Indiana and Kentucky at 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Check out this Politico map for poll closing times in every state, or check this site if you need to find your own polling place before it closes.
- ABC News will be streaming live election coverage on YouTube as well as through its iPad app starting at 4 p.m. PT.
- NBC will stream its election coverage on its Democracy Plaza site as well as through its NBC News Xbox app starting at 4 p.m. PT.
- CBS News will have seven hours of live coverage on Ustream.
- Fox News will have a live webcast of its election coverage starting at 5 p.m. PT. The network is also partnering once again for Twitter to surface trends and sentiments from millions of tweets.
- Univision’s Spanish-language election night coverage starts at 4 p.m. PT on YouTube.
- Fox News Latino will host Spanish-language live coverage on its site starting at 6 p.m. PT.
- CNN will stream its election night coverage on its website as well as to to its iOS apps.
- MSN News is streaming live on its website.
- Hulu is featuring live streams from ABC, the Wall Street Journal, Fox and the New York Times. The site will have additional coverage, including the winner’s acceptance speech, on its election hub.
- Comedy Central will stream live episodes of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report on its website as well as its iOS and Android apps staring at 8 p.m. PT.
- PBS NewsHour will have a total of six streams with live election coverage on Ustream.
- C-SPAN is live streaming its election coverage starting at 5 p.m. PT. C-SPAN’s live feed comes with closed captions, which can be turned on here.
- Al Jazeera English will have live coverage of the election results on its website, its mobile apps, Facebook and YouTube.
- Yahoo’s election control room features live video from ABC News, live updates from the Yahoo News staff and a tie-in with Yahoo’s IntoNow second-screen app.
- The Wall Street Journal will be on YouTube with a live stream as well, which will also be available through its WSJ live apps on the iPad, on Android devices and various Smart TV platforms.
- The New York Times will host its own election results show straight out of its newsroom starting at 4 p.m. PT, and the site will take down its paywall to make its entire coverage available to everyone for 24 hours starting 3 p.m. PT. Also worth noting: The Times’ excellent interactive “Paths to the White House” data visualization.
- Politico’s live election coverage starts at 4 p.m. PT.
- The Washington Post will stream live coverage on its website and on YouTube. In addition, it will feature its The Fix columnist on a Ustream-hosted live stream.
- The Huffington Post will have live coverage of the election available on its website as well as through its HuffPost Live iPad app.
- Democracy Now is covering the results live on its site starting at 4pm PT.
- Larry King and ORA TV will be live on YouTube starting at 4 p.m. PT.
- Video The Vote, a group dedicated to documenting voting problems, will be live streaming throughout the day on Ustream.
- Aereo will make its broadcast streaming service freely available to anyone in New York from 6 p.m. ET to 6.a. ET the following day.
- Twitter is providing curated tweets on its #election2012 micro-site.
- Facebook is doing some neat live data visualization around their member’s voting.
We will update this list frequently until Tuesday night, so check back often – and feel free to leave any additional links in the comments!
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Image courtesy of Flickr user League of Women Voters of California.
Watch it on Stevie.com – all the comfort and entertainment of a Tv channel, but programmed by all the good uptodate stuff from twitter facebook and youtube – friends, politicians, analysts, celebrities and voters. Check it!
Janko, you missed the most important live stream. For the 1st time ever, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be streamed live on comedycentral.com starting at 8PM. Who could miss John Stewart and Steven Colbert on election night? Not me.
Roku tweeted to let owners of their device know they can tune in for free on the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Fox News, and NBC News channels.
Another option online is Democracy Now! Their coverage will go live at 7 ET. http://www.democracynow.org/
How do you now mention Current TV? They’re doing great work.
It doesn’t sound like they’re streaming it live.
Add This: http://www.democracynow.org/live/live_election_night_2012_coverage
First time ever election coverage from a Biblical perspective begins at 7:00pm central time.
http://www.bvov.tv/
https://www.facebook.com/CopelandNetwork/app_162888710519006
Americastands2012.com
Thank you for this compilation. I’ve been looking for a stream, now I can choose from a dozen.
Thanks, Janko. This is helpful.
Do you happen to know if there’s any live online tracking of California proposition results?
Coverage from a “biblical perspective” is a really good idea!
The candidates do not seem to have very biblical positions on rape, slavery and murder.
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Thank you very much for links.
T. Finnish watcher
The Texas Tribune ( http://www.texastribune.org/ ) is live-blogging all Texas races, as well as supporting a up-to-the-minute scoreboard of all races.
Scoreboard: http://www.texastribune.org/election-2012/scoreboard/
Live blog: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/liveblog-2012-election-results/
i fell asleep watching and woke up to a speech yayyyyyyyy and thanks for the info
Too many choices! What did you finally come up with as the best one?
Sooo close!