Frederica Freyberg:
Speaking of which we close tonight by pointing you in the direction of another voter resource, our WPR/WPT election website, wisconsinvote.org. For that, we turn to co-editor of the site, Andy Soth. Andy, thanks for being here.

Andy Soth:
Glad to be here.

Frederica Freyberg:
Do us a favor and show us what the highlights are on this site for people ahead of election day or on election day?

Andy Soth:
Sure. Right before an election we find our traffic goes up and people are looking for basic voting information. So like, finding your polling place. My polling place has changed. SO it might be worth a look. Or finding out who your candidates are. With redistricting there may be unfamiliar names. And then also registration requirements. But you could also watch the interview you did with Kevin Kennedy last week that covers a lot of that same registration material.

Frederica Freyberg:
What was up in that yellow highlighted box on the front right?

Andy Soth:
Right here? These are mostly connections to the Government Accountability Board resources where you can find your polling place. You can check on your voter registration, and you can find out who the candidates will be.

Frederica Freyberg:
That Kevin Kennedy interview that we did, it’s like a five-minute interview. Tells you a lot of things you need to know about voting.

Andy Soth:
Right.

Frederica Freyberg:
That’s just one of the many video clips that you have on this site.

Andy Soth:
Yeah, video and audio, because we have content from, of course, all of “Here and Now’s” election coverage, but also Wisconsin Public Radio's news coverage and from the Ideas Network, their talks, either candidates interviews or political discussion.

Frederica Freyberg:
So with all of this material on this website, I mean, it’s beautifully done really and we use it as a resource in the newsroom, of course, but how can people really narrow in and find what they need to find without slogging through all this other stuff?

Andy Soth:
Sure. There’s a lot to browse through. One thing we've done which is new is if you’re looking in a specific race or specific candidate, if you go to that candidate’s page, we put links directly where we consolidated our coverage of those candidates. So this is a good place to go for undecided voters who can do some side-by-side comparisons.

Frederica Freyberg:
Give me an example of what that looks like. You have the candidate. You have–

Andy Soth:
Right. We’ll have the radio coverage here, and then we have TV coverage, sort of, going back actually, to the primary. But this is Tommy’s interview at the convention. This is the one-on-one interview he did with Zac. And we also have coverage of the whole senate race as well.
Frederica Freyberg:
And then I know that you also have bios on there of the candidates.

Andy Soth:
Yeah, yeah. For the– particularly for those races that don’t get as much coverage, like the assembly and state senate, for all those candidates we have bios and we have links to their websites and even facebook pages. More and more candidates have facebook pages now.

Frederica Freyberg:
Now, historically when do you see the most traffic on this website?

Andy Soth:
Well, starting the weekend before it climbs up and Monday there’s a huge spike. Those, kind of, last minute voters. And then of course on election night as well.

Frederica Freyberg:
That must be pretty satisfying for you to put all this work into this site and then see that people are actually using it and getting that, kind of, last-minute information, but very important information.

Andy Soth:
Yeah, yeah. It’s great that people come to it, and it’s just one other way they can find out what we do.

Frederica Freyberg:
And I do have to say, I’ve been on a lot of different websites looking for this kind of information, and this one really has it all. I know I sound like I’m doing a promo, but it really has it all in one place and is very easy to navigate. On election night, your computer really starts throwing flames, right?

Andy Soth:
That’s right. We’ll have the live election returns continuously updated through the night going down all the way through state assembly and a table, but we’ll have an interactive county map of Wisconsin, where you can follow the federal races, presidential, congress and senate on an ongoing basis throughout the night.

Frederica Freyberg:
How does that look? If people dial into wisconsinvote.org on election night and you've got this interactive map, what does that mean? What will they see?

Andy Soth:
There will be a big picture of Wisconsin. It will be constantly changing, updated every few minutes with the new vote totals as they come in. They'll be color-coded, red or blue or shades of purple if it’s close.

Frederica Freyberg:
And what kind of traffic do you get on election night?

Andy Soth:
Oh, tens of thousands. It may be a little bit different. Maybe people are looking at the national race. But I think if Wisconsin stays as close throughout the night as it has through the last few weeks, we may get a lot more traffic than expected.

Frederica Freyberg:
All right, Andy Soth. Good luck. Thanks very much.

Andy Soth:
Thank you.