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Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs
online.wsj.com — Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country
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- tomboy501, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14FTA: "The data are collected through the National Election Pool, a consortium made up of the three traditional networks, CNN, Fox News and the AP. NEP's members decide which questions are asked and set the rules for the data's release. Only consortium members get all of the data, including state breakdowns. Other media outlets -- but not bloggers or political parties -- may purchase the data, on a sliding cost scale."
Wow. So many things seem so very wrong with this concept.
I guess I would start with the idea that CNN and FOX are considered "traditional"...and are lumped together with the AP in this "consortium".- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Those companies are the ones paying paying for the exit polling to be done. If you or someone else wanted to go out and do exit polling, you can.
- jcembree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They're not saying that Fox, CNN, and the AP *are* the 3 traditional networks; it's a list. It should have read: "...a consortium made up of the three traditional networks (ABC, NBC, CBS), CNN, Fox News and the AP..."
- tomboy501, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@jcembree
...guess my point is I am just shocked that FOX - which has developed such a strong political bias - would be an equal of the Assoc. Press in any consortium. The fact that Fox News can't even post the correct party affiliation abbreviation ("R" or "D") next to the candidate's name during their news broadcasts should, in my opinion, automatically disqualify them from any election day information privileges.
- jfair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Can I keep my graphing calculator?
- jkavvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Exit Polls:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/11/07/exit_polls.html
Take with grain of salt though. - friend18, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1It's a series of tubes.
- foamweapons, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Oh man, I totally predicted this yesterday. I'm like the PS3 baby, or something.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/America_s_Slide_to_Totalitarianism#c3724270 - theXwarXwon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2The problem is... THERE IS NO GOOD REASON TO KEEP THIS INFORMATION SECRET!!!! In order for "We the People" to hold our government accountable, there must be transparency!!!! Besides... if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide, right?
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not the government keeping it secret, nothing is stopping others from performing exit polls too.
- MrMajeika, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I think theres something to be said for not shouting out results while people are still voting. People might sway towards the "winning" side.
- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@MrMajeika
When did voting become fashionable? - MrMajeika, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@vertinox
Oh don't give me that! Much as we would love to pretend otherwise, many people want to be backing the winning team, whatever it is.
You only have to look at a large discussion group to see how weaker members side with whichever opinion is becoming concensus.
I'm just saying its not wise to be giving out results whilst people are still deciding. Whatever number of people may be swayed, it would affect the integrity of the election.
- Xenophix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0They're keeping the information from who, and why? What the *****? Who cares?
Did that say they're hiding it from the actual political parties too? Jesus, that's so messed up. - DavidtheDuke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Exit polls gave Kerry a landslide in 2004. That didn't help much.
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Yea, unfortunately exit polls don't take election fraud into account.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ever since 2000, exit polls have been inaccurate, yet they interestingly remain accurate in other countries.
- nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Exit polls are being EXPOSED AS THE TOTAL JOKE that they are this year! They are proving as worthless as all serious political junkies know they are. They are just have no statistical signifigance at all...especially in states like TN where more than 4 out of 10 people have already voted in absentee.
Most of what the exit polls are saying tonite just does not pass the laugh test...
For instance,
they have LAMONT winning in NH!??!?! HAHAHAHA! What a joke.- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2How old are you? 12?
- Uhhh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Exit polls are asinine. They discourage many voters who think their candidate may have already lost.
Keeping exit polling restricted is a great idea. - ne0shell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exit polls have always been highly accurate - in some countries exit polls are used to determine the winners and the ballots are stored for verification. Once the largely GOP strategy of providing insecure e-voting machines and challenging millions of votes came into being the exit polls became "inn-accurate". The only reason to start making them secret is to hide the fraud. The larger than normal turn outs this election may have overcome the Rove machine, hopefully we can start cleaning up this mess now.
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