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::::I've edited the template to address this. [[User:E Pluribus Anthony|E Pluribus Anthony]] | [[User talk:E Pluribus Anthony|''talk'']] | 03:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
::I '''do''' accept your point Ray that any results that are posted at 03:01 UTC will be from the same media sources that have had them for a couple of hours already. I don't know if Elections Canada provides provisional results (it would amaze me if they didn't, but I don't know), but the sources we use at first are likely to be CBC or newspaper sites. The problem is that if results are posted during the blackout by Americans who have telephoned their friends in Newfoundland, how can anyone check them? Users in Newfoundland can presumably switch on the radio or pick up an early edition of the newspaper, but they can't post them on Wikipedia without breaking the law. There are occasions where it is useful for Wikipedia to publish the best information we have, even if it is not perfectly verifiable—[[Hurricane Katrina]] springs to mind, remember the "disclaimer templates" telling people [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Katrina&oldid=22146269 not to leave their home or shelter solely on the basis of what they read on Wikipedia]?—but for a delay of less than three hours for data which we normally expect to present accurately does not seem excessive to me. That's why I used the term "speculative and unverifiable"; not in any absolute sense, but relative to the accuracy which we would expect of an encyclopedia quoting election results. [[User:Physchim62|Physchim62]] [[User talk:Physchim62|(talk)]] 11:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
== Gender breakdown of Candidates ==
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