Election Night Watch parties with little to watch The Ohio Statehouse Scoop

If you've been to an Election Night watch party for a candidate or an issue lately, you may have been a little dismayed by how little there is to watch. That's because while the returns you can watch online through the Ohio Secretary of State's office (and sometimes at local boards of elections) trickle in, national news networks are using data, polling, and other resources of their own to project the winners early. Sometimes those predictions are made before voters have an opportunity to see the returns come in. The Statehouse News Bureau team takes a look at what is going on behind the scenes on Election Night and gives listeners an insight into the inner workings of counting and reporting votes.