Dealing with deadlines and an election

As usual, the date of an election and our deadline conspired to make for a difficult day.
We are a thrice-weekly newspaper, publishing Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
The deadlines for those editions are horrible, but out of our control.
Deadline for Wednesday is Tuesday at 11 a.m.; deadline for Friday is Thursday at 11 a.m.; deadline for Sunday is end of day Friday.
This is because our paper is printed in Vernon - an hour and a bit away - then trucked back to Kamloops to be delivered to 30,000 homes.
And so the dilemma we face each time there is an election.
Of course, we have a fantastic website (kamloopsthisweek.com) to which we post breaking news, photos and video all day and all night.
But I am focusing our our newspaper here, the print version.
This year's provincial election fell on a Tuesday, which meant we could not have results in Wednesday's paper, considering we went to press while the polls were still open for ninr more hours.
What to do. What to do.
We hit the same challenge in last fall's federal election and we confront the same problem every three years, when municipal elections are held on a Saturday in November.
This is a longwinded way to explain why our day-after-election paper featured Kevin Krueger on the cover, casting his ballot.
Since we cannot have results of the election in our paper (though we did manage to have updated results on our webiste, along with quotes from candidates, in real time on election night), we decided again to at least include an election-themed component for the cover.
I chose Krueger because, quite frankly, I felt he was the surest bet to win a seat.
This time, we were correct; Krueger romped to victory in Kamloops-South Thompson and it was good to see we put a victor on the cover.
We weren't so lucky back in the fall, when I decided to get a shot of NDP candidate Michael Crawford casting a ballot and toss it on the front page of the day-after-election paper.
Again, I felt he was going to win.
Of course, he didn't. Conservative Cathy McLeod triumphed.
So, we are 1-1 in post-election cover shots taken before the polls close.
Yes, it is this tough planning when you are a thrice-weekly competing with a daily newspaper, local TV News and five radio stations.