Two widgets, both provided by major companies have some discrepancies in their data and the election hasn’t even started yet! I’m not sure who’s wrong here, Google or Microsoft, but either way someone’s data isn’t accurate. When it comes to something like an election - accuracy is very important. As best I can tell, Hawaii is the last poll to close and from the even hour discrepancy, it seems to me someone didn’t account for daylight savings or a timezone somewhere.

Screen grabs taken at the same time

The live widgets for both companies are below.

Tags: accuracy, data, election, widget

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