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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Politico’s live election coverage starts at 4 p.m. PT.
- The Washington Post will stream live from its newsroom on Ustream.
- The Huffington Post will have liver coverage of the election available on its website as well as through its HuffPost Live iPad app.
- 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.
We will update this list frequently until Tuesday night, so check back often – and feel free to leave any additional links in the comments!
For more on how to watch news and other TV programming without paying for cable, check out my ebook Cut the Cord: All You Need to Know to Drop Cable.
Image courtesy of Flickr user League of Women Voters of California.
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