Welcome to BBC News Online’s Vote USA 2000 Election Challenge, an experiment in interactive newsgathering.

We asked you, our users, to set one week’s assignments for our special reporting team as part of our election coverage.

You sent our reporters Tom Carver and Kevin Anderson across the USA and back again - more than 6,500 miles in five days - to find out more about

Voter apathy
George W Bush's record as Texas governor
Voting via the internet
Ralph Nader and the Green Party
Swing voters

Buffeted by bad weather, tortured by technical hitches, but inspired by your inquiries Tom and Kevin diligently stuck to their task.

You can read their reports and watch their webcasts by clicking the destinations on the map.

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail us using the link on the left.