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When are editors ever going to learn not to futz around with technology on Election Day?

The Phoenix catches boston.com putting up an interactive map showing Coakley has won the election several hours before the polls closed.

Now anybody who's ever worked in a newsroom knows somebody was just doing this to test the map out, not because he or she is part of a zombie army munching its way through the Commonwealth. Anybody who's ever worked with Web sites, however, knows NOT TO FRICKIN' DO THAT ON A LIVE SYSTEM. That's why God gave us test servers behind the firewall, guys.

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Comments

...it hit my desk so hard in amazement when I saw this.

why boston.com was down for a while this morning!

The Globe thought that maybe putting it on the Internets would make it come true. Nice try.

I would have thought that African Elephants would overwhelmingly vote Republican.

I would hope that Boston.com would have staging servers that they could use to test this sort of thing.