Loveland Graduate writes new code for NewsHour election results

Voting Reported Heavy in Critical Super Tuesday States

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the West Virginia GOP caucuses Tuesday, the first result in a day that will see voters in 24 states cast their ballots for Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.

The interactive map on the Newshour web site contains "rollovers" for every state in the country - leading the viewer to see real time voting results as election returns come in tonight. The code for the map and its interactivity was created by Loveland High School Graduate, Katie (Miller) Kleinman. The project is a joint map collaboration with NewsHour and NPR. She graduated from Loveland High School in 1997 and Ohio University in 2001.

Before this, studio producers would look at the Associated Press feeds of each of the primary/caucus voting results, and manually enter each percentage for each candidate.  With this new form, the numbers will be prefilled for them as they are entered directly from the Associated Press feeds.

Kleinman also made a splash page for the people in the control room to look at that gives a snapshot of the results/delegate count. She is Senior Developer for the Online NewsHour.

There will be a special election broadcast on PBS from 9-midnight that will take full advantage of Kleinman's code work.

Also on the NewsHour website NPR political editor Ron Elving explains how delegates are elected and appointed and what it means for the Democratic and GOP nominations.

Link: Online NewsHour | PBS.