Exit Polls, what are they really?

[TrustingDog]

and if I'm not mistaken, they were not taken in 2000.
help me, there's so much to know on so many avenues...


'too many notes' - from Amadeus.

[NMDemDist2]

1. exit polls are notoriously accurate and were used for years n/t

[TrustingDog]

4. what are they, is my question....

Each individual voting station has numbers of how many voted?

[NMDemDist2]

5. no the news media pay for it. The pollsters figure several "representative

precincts and then poll folks as they come out from voting for each state


it was used for around 20 years and was very very reliable for the most part

[Yupster]

6. Gets less reliable

as more and more states make absentee voting more avalable though.

In Texas in many districts, 50 % of the votes cast happen before election day, and are therefore not subject to exit polls.

[FloridaPat]

2. I believe they were taken in 2000. It was 2002 that they stopped

them because they were different from what the voting machines were saying. They pulled out saying there was a bug in their logic or computer program or whatever. Considering that in places where the Dems were suppose to win and there was a big flip in quite a few races, a lot of people assumed that proved there was theft of that election too.

[WillyT]

7. Here's One Version Of What Happened !!!

Link: http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article/0,3668,a=35729,00.asp

:shrug:

BTW - Here's the first page of a Google of 'Voters News Service': http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=voter+news+service&btnG=Google+Search

[MasonJar]

3. Exit polls are the reason the networks came out for Gore as

Pres. The Jeb left the room and cousin at Fox started the lying which never ends.