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I did this in the 2014 election cycle, reporting a county in Ohio.

They pay $50 for someone to go to the county and report the election results. There's an iphone, android, and mobile web site, as well as a call center that takes that input.

Honestly, it was a really fun evening in the middle of nowhere Ohio...

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Curious about the logistics of how you obtained the results from the county. Was it posted somewhere? Given verbally from an election official?

I hung out at the Board of Elections office. It was printed, and posted, every 15 minutes or so, as polling locations came in.

When I was there, it was me and a college student from the local college who was there working for the AP awaiting the results; everyone else was getting them online.

My county allows anyone who wants to be there to sit in a room (next to where physical ballots are counted and receipts are tabulated) and get the counts a few minutes before the website is updated.

I was there in 2008 and '12 and there are usually representatives from both state parties, both county parties, and the larger campaigns.

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