Election CountDown

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Know the Candidates! Know the Issues! Know Your Choices! The Election Countdown offers individuals a chance to review past elections and current projections for future elections. This page shows the way each state voted, whether Democratic or Republican, according to that state's electoral college vote. The Election Countdown has chosen to start with the 1992 election because that's approximately when the Internet became public and was open to private businesses.* The columns to the left of the page represent each state's number of electoral votes, and to the right is a graphical representation of the United States showing how each state voted. *" In 1993 the U.S. National Science Foundation , after a competitive bidding process in 1992, created the InterNIC to manage the allocations of addresses and management of the address databases, and awarded the contract to three organizations. Registration Services would be provided by Network Solutions ; Directory and Database Services would be provided by AT&T ; and Information Services would be provided by General Atomics . " See document: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/lir-wg/1992/msg00028.html . NSF NETWORK INFORMATION SERVICES AWARDS. Retrieved 12/25/05. - * in 1992 The Internet Society was created and was called ISOC and was founded. http://www.isoc.org/ - --*1991 Transition of Nic Service In 1991, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded the administration and maintenance of DDN-NIC to Government Systems, Incorporated, who subcontracted it to Network Solutions, Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-21 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1261.txt U.S. Presidential Election Maps from 2008 to 1992.

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