Reply #34: Exit polls are the only defense against black-boxes

[abbiehoff]

Before the election, when I expressed doubts about the validity of voting on machines that left absolutely no trace of the voter's intent other than the bits accumulated inside the machine, I was assured that exit polls would prevent fraud from occurring. Now I'm supposed to believe that the invisible vote counting is correct and the exit polls are wrong? I don't think so. As far as I'm concerned, the purpose of exit polls is to keep the election honest. There seems to me to be a much greater probability that the vote was hacked than that the (original) exit polls were hacked. There is much more to be gained by hacking the vote.