Our team here at msnbc.com has created a snazzy set of widgets that any site can embed on election night for the latest returns, updated every two minutes. There are two widgets that come in three sizes each: a national electoral map and a state map of your choosing. So if you’re a local media site in Denver, for example, you can post both the national map as well as a Colorado map, and users can even drill down to county-level results. Here’s a mock-up example of the national widget using random test data:
More details here, and you can grab the widgets here on msnbc.com. (They’ll display a countdown until a couple hours before the results start coming in on Nov. 4th, then they’ll automatically switch to the map).
Also, don’t forget msnbc.com also offers up embeddable video, and on election night there will be a ton of it. So with the widgets and the embeddable video, you can essentially create an election experience on your own site. (Full disclosure: Yes, I work at msnbc.com.)