“Data Scraping” is extracting data from a web page, either from the HTML of the web page itself, or from the data sources used by that web page.
The New York times election result pages have easily readable data sources, including time-stamped state-of-the race data, and so have been used by independent analysts to look at the trends as the results came in.
One claim is that votes are being “swapped” ... Read even more
