1 November 2004

Meet the Votemaster

Webmaster for the popular electoral college vote poll reporting website www.electoral-vote.com unmasks his anonymity. And it's an noted Computer Science professor, who's famous for another reason.
I wrote MINIX, the precursor to Linux, for example. I also have experience designing Websites, for example, that of the Computer Science Dept. at my university.

Andrew Tanenbaum, who inspired Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux operating system.

Everyday, the site is updated and the most recent state-by-state polling numbers are tallied to show a presidential electoral college scoreboard. Here is what the map looked like on November 1, 2004.



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