Elections and projections - physical and figurative
Eons ago I got quite fascinated by how elections and election integrity can be boosted by ambient interventions. Not a new idea by any means but dating back to fantastic experiments by newspapers and other publishers in the late 19th and early 20th century. See the NYT initiative below that in addition to projecting results onto facades also used an elaborate searchlight system to literally broadcast updated results into the broader world.
See https://www.nytimes.com/1905/11/07/archives/the-times-election-searchlight-code.html
Fast forward to today and - surprise - it is a new crop of online betting platforms that plaster cities with digital screens to show real-time betting odds for political contests. For example nicely illustrated here
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
or in this article here (pictures are presumable copyrighted so I do not reproduce them here)
Physical projection fusing with the figurative type of (future) projections. An interesting evolution of ambient electoral transparency, yet also with troubling side-effects as I outline elsewhere













