MySociety has access to the boundary lines of voting districts through what Mr Steinberg calls "a bizarre restrictive licence".
That means that the line of "vote Labour to keep the Tories out" no longer washes – if it ever did.
Enterprising moms take advantage of long lines to vote at PS 29 in Cobble Hill by selling baked goods to benefit PTA.
Can this really be the same Mr Lockyer who boasted of crossing party lines to vote for Mr Schwarzenegger?
They have crossed party lines to vote in favor of reproductive rights before, but both women also voted in favor of ultra-conservative Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court appointment last year.
And in both instances Dean was content to let legislators do the heavy lifting — the drafting and the lining up of votes.
While bar charts show a snapshot in time from a particular election, line charts of voting trends over time are much more useful to see where the vote's likely to go in future.
People were still waiting in line to vote outside of mosques and schools in Tehran when the polls closed at 9 p.m., 12 hours after balloting had begun.
But with three states rather than one classed a toss-up, there are 51 electoral-college votes up for grabs — enough to get Romney much closer to the winning line of 270 votes, but not quite over it.
Also, a minimum number of line votes of 20 and a value of 5 for the minimum segment length and the maximum gap of points of the same line have been used.
