Who Decides The Election

Edison Research has done work with the Gates Foundation. The owner and SVP are both Jews as well.

I dont know what the fuck this site is but it seems relevant,
"
Frequently Asked Questions About the NEP Exit Poll

What is the National Election Pool (NEP)?

The National Election Pool is a consortium of ABC News, Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News. It was formed in 2003 in order to provide information on Election Night about the vote count, election analysis and election projections. NEP contracted with Edison Research to make projections and provide Exit Poll analysis. In addition, the NEP retained the Associated Press to conduct a tabulation of the vote throughout the country.

What does Edison Research provide to the NEP?

Edison Research conducts statewide Exit Polls throughout the country as well as a National survey. In addition, Edison collects the vote count in a sample of precincts in each state. Edison provides Exit Poll analysis and projections for President, U.S. Senate, Governor as well as selected U.S. House, and state referenda and initiatives.

What is an Exit Poll?

Exit Polls are interviews with voters after they have cast their votes at their polling places. A sample of precincts is scientifically selected to collectively represent a state, or for the national Exit Poll, the nation. An interviewer gives every nth voter exiting the polling place a questionnaire to complete. There are questions about demographics such as gender, age, race, and issues related to the person’s vote choice in different contests. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. The interviewing starts when the polls open and continue throughout the day until about an hour before the polls close.

Who decides what questions to ask on the Exit Poll?

All questions asked on state and national questionnaires are prepared by the six members of the National Election Pool.

How many polling places will be in your sample?

Sample sizes vary from state to state.

How do you select sample precincts?

Precincts are selected as a stratified probability sample of each state. The purpose of stratification is to group together precincts with similar vote characteristics. A recent past election is used to identify all precincts as they existed for that election. The total vote in each precinct and the partisan division of the vote from this past race are used for the stratification. In addition, counties are used for stratifying the precincts. The total vote also is used to determine the probability of selection. Each voter in a state has approximately the same chance of being selected in the sample.

Who makes projections of the winning candidates?

Projections are made by Edison and transmitted to each of the NEP members and subscribing news organizations. Each of the members has its own analysts who review the Exit Poll results and the tabulated data as it is collected. Each news organization makes its own decision about what to report to the public. All decisions are made after careful review by the analysts and are not automatic decisions made by a computer.

How are projections of winners made?

Projections of a winning candidate are based on models that use votes from three different sources — Exit Poll interviews with voters, vote returns as reported by election officials from the sample precincts, and tabulations of votes by county. The models make estimates from all these vote reports. The models also indicate the likely error in the estimates. The best model estimate may be used to make a projection if it passes a series of tests.

When will projections be made?

Projections of a winning candidate are only made after all the polls in a state are closed and when the best model estimates show a clear winner. There will be no projections before the last polls in a state are closed."

p2012.org/chrneday/edisonfaq.html
archive.is/aTZ4D

If (((Rosin))) didn't tip you off, here's his twitter following (not much else interesting on there, he doesn't post on twitter much)

cont.
"How do absentee votes affect projections?

In a number of states significant numbers of voters cast their ballots before Election Day. They either cast an absentee ballot or they vote at voting locations set-up for voters in the weeks leading up to the election. A sample of absentee/early voters are interviewed by telephone shortly before the election. Edison combines the results of these absentee/early voters’ interviews with the Election Day Interviews in the survey results reported by the NEP.

What is the Margin of Error for an Exit Poll?

Exit Polls are surveys. As in all surveys, there is a margin of error due to sampling. The margin of error for a 95% confidence interval is about +/- 3% for a typical characteristic from the national Exit Poll and +/-4% for a typical state Exit Poll. Characteristics that are more concentrated in a few polling places, such as race, have larger sampling errors. Other non sampling factors may increase the total error.

How many people does it take to conduct the Exit Polls and collect the vote at the Edison Research sample precincts?

For a national election, almost 3,000 people are required to do the job at Edison. This includes Exit Poll interviewers, telephone operators to take their calls at election headquarters, reporters at the sample precincts to get the vote, developers to program the computers, systems specialists, election researchers, technical support at all sites, analysts reviewing the computations, support staff to manage the Exit Polls and management of the project.

How can I have confidence in a race that you call?

Since Edison Research began conducting exit polls for the National Election Pool in 2003, the news organizations using the Edison data have not made a single mistake in deciding a winner in any race. We use a high standard of care in making sure that the information and analysis that we provide news organizations is accurate. All surveys, including exit polls have a sampling error and Edison Research makes certain to take that into account before advising news organizations of the winner in any race.

What does the Associated Press provide to the NEP?

The AP collects voter returns from all counties in the United States and from cities/towns in the New England states. They provide tabulations for each state for Senate and Governor, and congressional district tabulations for U.S. House of Representatives. They also provide tabulations for selected state referenda and initiatives. Regular AP clients are offered a more comprehensive vote count for many additional political contests."
p2012.org/chrneday/edisonfaq.html
archive.is/aTZ4D

i'm not sure i read all of that right, but do they not even count the votes?

So basically, you can rig elections 3 points from what the exit polls say without arousing suspicion.

So if you need to alter the results more than 3 points, you need to fuck with the exit poll data too. How convenient that a tiny Jewish-owned company with Gates Foundation ties and a staff full of feminists (check their twitters) has complete control of exit polling with absolutely no transparency.

this is all way to fucking convenient, on the twitter the also spew muh BLM

here is an interview done with one of the employees, too long to post all of it,

"Exit poll estimates are constantly changing during the day and evening. I would not be able to answer exactly without knowing what time the estimates you are looking at were calculated. There are time of day effects on the exit poll. Older voters tend to be more likely to vote in the middle of the day. Working voters tend to either vote early before work or later after work.

Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight wrote a piece for the Guardian in 2012 which addressed what seemed to many of FiveThirtyEight’s readers like surprising differences between exit polling and final results. Enten was working with numbers from 2004’s general election and a state election in Wisconsin in 2012 with differences between exit polling and final results of around 5 percentage points, seven points at the top most. That would be just at the edge of the Margin of Error, slightly over in the case of Wisconsin; Enten explained why this is possible and not indicative of fraud. In fact, however, 2016 Democratic contests have seen Edison’s first full wave miss outside the margin of error in nine of the twenty-three primaries I have numbers for, all of them in Clinton’s favor and all by between eight and fourteen points. Are these calculations correct, and if so, can you comment on why that is possible?"
counterpunch.org/2016/05/11/an-interview-with-lead-edison-exit-pollster-joe-lenski/
archive.is/gfMVJ

"The calculation of margin of error for an exit poll is more complicated than a simple calculation of margin of error based upon the sample size. Exit polls have two stages of sampling – first stage is the selection of a sample of poll locations typically between 15 and 50 locations in a state; second stage is the random selection of voters within each polling location. This two stage sampling procedure introduces a Design Effect (sometimes referred to in the literature as DEFF) that increases the overall sampling error. Also there are many other contributions to total error in any survey. As I mentioned before approximately 40 to 50 percent of respondents participate in the exit poll. If the group of voters who refuse to respond to an exit poll differ from those who do participate in the exit poll that would introduce a source of error that is impossible to calculate based upon the information that we have before the polls close. From our interviewer observations we know that older voters are more likely to refuse to participate in an exit poll. There is also evidence that higher educated voters are more likely to participate in an exit poll. Voters may have other reasons for declining to participate in exit polls – they may not have brought their reading glasses, they may not like any of the news organizations who sponsor the exit poll and whose logos appear on the questionnaire, etc. All of these factors contribute to a total error for the exit poll survey that is much larger than a standard calculation of sampling error based upon the total number of interviews.

I now want to get your comment on some explanations that people, including you, have floated for the exit poll discrepancy level. One suggests fraud or other forms of officially miscounted ballots, several do not.

The substantive explanation you’ve been giving for why these exit polls cannot indicate fraud while exit polls in what you call “emerging democracies” might is that the longer form of your questionnaire versus a simple “who did you vote for?” may lead to over and undersampling of various demographics. Bernie Sanders’ best demographic, however, is 18-29-year-olds. Given the general perception of 18-29-year-old attention spans, wouldn’t this explanation actually suggest that you might oversample older Clinton supporters rather than under-sampling them?

I don’t see how your assumption about the attention spans of 18 to 29 year olds has any influence here. We know from our interviewer observations that younger voters are more likely to fill out an exit poll questionnaire than older voters.

Another theory, one that might explain some level of discrepancy is that Bernie Sanders’ supporters, sometimes pejoratively called Bernie Bros, are so enthusiastic that they just can’t wait to tell everyone, including Edison pollsters, about their hero. Do Edison polling practices account for this possibility or could this explain why Edison is consistently oversampling Sanders voters?

The “enthusiasm” of a candidate’s voters may indeed have influence on who chooses to fill out an exit poll questionnaire and who chooses not to. We do have some evidence from questions that we have asked during this primary season that Sanders voters are more excited about their candidate than Clinton voters. It would make sense to hypothesize then that Sanders voters would be more likely to choose to fill out an exit poll questionnaire than Clinton voters. However, I have no hard evidence to prove or disprove that hypothesis.

Nate Cohn of the New York Times’ Upshot suggests that several cycles worth of data proves that exit polls overestimate young people’s turnout and that that, combined with early voting, is skewing results toward Sanders in Exit Polls. Could you comment on those factors?

There is a pattern that the exit polls show more younger voters than surveys of voters using other survey methods especially telephone surveys of voters. It may be that even our adjustments of age demographics based upon our observations of non-response by age do not completely correct for this effect. It may be that telephone surveys of voters are more likely to contact older people. My guess is that the correct answer is somewhere in between but I have no hard evidence for that.

Finally, in terms of non-fraudulent explanations, in New York City, where your first wave of exit polling missed the final spread by sixteen percentage points, there were over 121,000 affidavit or provisional ballots cast. This equals 12% of all New York City ballots. Could this account for all of the problems in New York and does Edison ask people whether they voted provisionally or not?"

counterpunch.org/2016/05/11/an-interview-with-lead-edison-exit-pollster-joe-lenski/
archive.is/gfMVJ

edisonresearch.com/larry-rosin/
archive.is/FfehF
Larry Rosin is President of Edison Research, which he co-founded in 1994. Since then he has been a primary force in building the company into one of the world’s most respected survey research companies, with a particular specialization in media and election polling. Edison is best known as the company that performs Exit Polls for all U.S. Elections for the National Election Pool (a consortium of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and the Associated Press). In addition, Edison is well known for its groundbreaking media research series “The Infinite Dial” which tracks developments in digital media, and “Share of Ear” which measures all audio usage in the U.S., among many other things.
Rosin is a graduate of Princeton University where he majored in Public and International Affairs, and he received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
edisonresearch.com/joe-lenski-2/
archive.is/JpSkr
Joe Lenski is co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Research. Under his supervision, Edison Research currently conducts all exit polls for the six major news organizations comprising the National Election Pool (NEP) – ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and the Associated Press. Edison Research has conducted all state and national exit polling for the NEP since 2003. Edison Research has also conducted exit polls for national elections in Iraq, Venezuela and the Republican of Georgia. Lenski is currently Councilor-At-Large for the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) has served as President of the New York Chapter of AAPOR.
Lenski is a graduate of Princeton University and studied at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

edisonresearch.com/rob-farbman-2/
archive.is/egvNg
Rob Farbman is Edison Research’s Senior Vice President. He is responsible for day-to-day management of research operations at Edison. One area of focus for Farbman is directing Edison’s work for the National Election Pool providing election polling to ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News and the Associated Press. Farbman also oversees Edison’s election exit polling for international clients, most recently in Venezuela, the Republic of Georgia and Iraq. Farbman manages Edison’s work in the Middle East and Africa, including research for U.S. Government broadcasting ventures: Radio Sawa, Radio Farda, and the Voice of America Africa Service. Farbman directs many of Edison’s high profile public opinion surveys including the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, the Univision Hispanic Tracking Survey, and projects for the Gates Foundation. Prior to joining Edison Research, Farbman was Director of Mitofsky International, a public opinion research company. Farbman has also served as Manager of Operations for Voter Research & Surveys and in research positions at CBS News and for the television syndication company King World Productions.
Farbman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Marketing Research Association and has served multiple times on the Executive Council of the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
edisonresearch.com/melissa-decesare-2/
archive.is/bSsHw
Melissa DeCesare is a Vice President for Edison Research, directing music research operations, project management and client deliverables. For nearly two decades, she has coordinated thousands of music studies and projects across the United States and abroad. DeCesare is also a key leader for The Research Moms, Edison’s division for moms research. By combining data with real life insight in her blog posts, she showcases how moms react, balance and adapt in their everyday lives. In addition, she is the principal author of the annual Moms and Media report, which highlights how moms consume both traditional and modern media. The report has been quoted in various publications for its relevance to social networking, Internet consumption and mobile device ownership among moms.
DeCesare has a B.A. from Trenton State College, now known as The College of New Jersey.

edisonresearch.com/sean-ross-2/
archive.is/BvM6S
Sean Ross is Edison Research’s Vice President of Music and Programming. A longtime journalist covering the radio industry for Billboard, R&R and others, Ross joined Edison in 2003. He is an acknowledged industry expert on the music and format landscape—market strategy, the evolution of formats, and the evolution of radio programming in a world of audio choices. Subscribe to his influential “Ross On Radio” newsletter here tiny url com mhc nx 4u or on Twitter at @RossOnRadio.
Ross’ background also includes programming at the station level and record label A&R. He has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Michigan. He is also an ‘01 graduate of the music industry training program Leadership Music.
edisonresearch.com/tom-webster-2/
archive.is/Su6mk
Tom Webster is Vice President of Strategy for Edison Research, a custom market research company best known as the sole providers of exit polling data during US elections for all the major news networks. He has nearly 20 years of experience researching consumer usage of technology, new media and social networking, and is the principal author of a number of widely-cited studies, including The Social Habit, Twitter Users in America, and the co-author of The Infinite Dial, America’s longest running research series on digital media consumption. He is also the co-author of The Mobile Commerce Revolution, and a popular keynote speaker on data and consumer insights. He writes about all of these topics at www.brandsavant.com and on Twitter at @Webby2001.
Webster has a B.A. from Tufts University, an MBA from The University of North Carolina, and conducted post-graduate studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

edisonresearch.com/melissa-kiesche-3/
archive.is/uW5Ym
Melissa Kiesche is a Vice President at Edison Research, and has been with the company since 2003. She is a key senior member of the Edison election team and has been instrumental in both developing its procedures and managing its operation for over ten years — this includes research, interviewer recruitment and training and materials development. Melissa is a go-to for Edison’s most logistically challenging projects and has been a lead on growing both the consumer exit polling and podcasting business. She is also one of Edison’s Research Moms, a group of experienced researchers with a specialization in understanding today’s moms.
Melissa is a graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in Television, Radio and Film from the Newhouse School of Public Communications and Policy Studies from the Maxwell School of Citizenship.
edisonresearch.com/nicole-beniamini/
archive.is/ZNJrb
Nicole Beniamini is a Director of Research with Edison Research, and has been with the company since 2004. During her time at Edison Research, Beniamini has been heavily involved in the election exit polls conducted for the National Election Pool. She also oversees a wide variety of domestic and international survey research, including telephone, online, and out-of-home studies. Beniamini manages The Infinite Dial, Edison Research’s annual study that measures consumer usage of and trends in digital media platforms.
Beniamini is a graduate of The College of New Jersey where she majored in Communication Studies.

edisonresearch.com/randy-brown/
archive.is/sy2SC
Randy Brown is a Director at Edison Research, and has been with the company since 2006. He oversees all aspects of data processing, tabulation and quality assurance for clients across the globe. Randy plays a key role in Edison’s work for the National Election Pool. For the NEP, Randy serves on the survey committee and helps design all exit poll questionnaires used throughout the country on Election Day. He is the head of Edison’s survey weighting team on Election Day, and is responsible for quality checks of all results before they are released to the public. Randy also manages Share of Ear™ , Edison Research’s quarterly study which measures all audio usage in the U.S.
Prior to joining Edison Research, Randy was a Project Manager for TMR, Inc., where he was responsible for data tabulations for a wide variety of projects.
edisonresearch.com/megan-lazovick/
archive.is/CZEZy
Megan Lazovick is Director of Research at Edison Research. She specializes in custom research design and implementation and the creative presentation of data and insights. Lazovick has spent substantial time traveling around the country interviewing people about their lives and passions. She is an experienced moderator in many forms of qualitative research: focus groups, one-on-one interviews and ethnographic in-person studies. She has designed and presented dynamic multimedia presentations seen at Ad Week, Country Radio Seminar, Marketing to Moms and other prominent media industry events.
Lazovick is a graduate of The College of New Jersey where she majored in Communication Studies with a focus in radio and television.

edisonresearch.com/mary-meyn/
archive.is/2CZoU
Mary Meyn is a Director of Research for Edison Research, and has been with the company since 2006. Mary primarily works on Edison’s custom research, and has worked with all modes of data collection including telephone, online, in-person and by-mail. In particular, Mary was instrumental in developing the methodology for the Share of Ear study, a national study of audio listening, which is conducted quarterly. Mary also provides support for the election exit polls, conducted for the National Election Pool, which provide voter analysis and election information to ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News and the Associated Press. She has also managed consumer exit polls in various applications, including at movie theatres, airports, malls, conferences, and other venues.
Mary graduated from Binghamton University in 2006 and has conducted graduate studies at Rutgers University.
edisonresearch.com/eric-riddles/
archive.is/BEgUv
Eric Riddles is a Director of Research at Edison Research, and he’s been with the company since 2006. Eric has worked in the public opinion and marketing research field since 1998, with a focus on data tabulation and survey management since arriving at Edison. Eric has worked on all phases of Edison’s music and podcasting research, as well as programming and fielding online surveys.
Eric has a B.A. from Indiana University.
edisonresearch.com/johanna-roche-2/
archive.is/IWTZm
Johanna Roche is the Director of Research for Edison Research and has been with the company since 2001. Johanna helps clients explore their research goals and identify which type of research best fits their needs. Her specialty in customized field research studies includes exit poll research where she has managed studies in almost every setting where consumers are found. Johanna is responsible for managing and organizing fieldwork, including interviewer training and supervising. In addition, she has significant experience in questionnaire design, data analysis and data presentations.
Johanna has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from The University of Scranton.

edisonresearch.com/laura-silvia-2/
archive.is/CocQQ
Laura Silvia is Edison Research’s Director of Technology, and has been with the company since 2003. During her tenure at Edison, she has pioneered the use of various online and mobile techniques to create research instruments that produce quality data for clients across the globe. She oversees Edison’s research projects that use the latest methodologies, and she ensures that each project is presented clearly and logically in the online and mobile environment. Additionally, Silvia manages Edison’s internal business technology, maintaining current systems and procuring new solutions for better collaboration and communication with colleagues and clients around the world. She is also one of Edison’s Research Moms, a group of experienced researchers with a specialization in understanding today’s moms.
Silvia is a graduate of The College of the Holy Cross.

...

No, they don't count the actual votes. They stand outside polling places on Election Day and ask the people leaving to fill out a survey on how they voted inside. Their results are more based on who's willing to fill out the survey than how people actually voted, just like any other poll.

I meant anyone? does anyone at all actual count them anymore?

"Since its founding in 1994, Edison Research has conducted over 12,000 research assignments in 35 countries. Edison works with a broad array of commercial clients, governments and NGOs, including Arbitron, Activision, AMC Theatres, Disney, the Federal Communications Commission, Google, Gulf News, the International Broadcasting Bureau, Pandora, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Time Warner and the U.S. Grains Council. Edison Research, the sole provider of election exit polling data to all major U.S. news networks since 2003, successfully conducted the 2012 election exit polls on Tuesday, November 6th. Using a combination of exit polling and telephone polling in states with significant early voting, Edison provided crucial data to ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and the Associated Press. Edison is also the leading provider of consumer exit polling and has conducted face-to-face research in almost every imaginable venue. Edison’s network of more than 14,000 experienced interviewers allows it to conduct research in almost any location. Another specialty for Edison is its work for media companies throughout the world, conducting both strategic and music research for successful stations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Working with both government and commercial clients, Edison has broad experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Projects have been conducted in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Tunisia and the U.A.E."
linkedin.com/company/edison-research
archive.is/ZUNjz

Warren Mitofsky, the founder of Mitofsky International, introduced exit polling at CBS News as a way to help explain why voters chose one candidate over another. In the 1980 election, NBC for the first time used the exit polls to predict the outcome of the elections. The network blew away its competition – correctly projecting races in state after state long before either ABC or CBS, who were still relying on officially reported results. [6]

In 1990, the networks pooled resources into a joint effort, called Voter Research Service (VRS), with Mitofsky as director, but answerable to the network representatives. In 1994, the networks also consolidated their vote counting operation (National Election Service – or NES) with their exit poll operation. This new joint venture was renamed Voter News Service (VNS). [6]

In 2000, VNS data led all the networks to, first, project Gore the winner, then retract the projection, then project Bush the winner – and thereby President, before retracting that projection as well. Based on the projection of Bush as winner, Gore called Bush to concede. When the error was observed, minutes before Gore was to deliver a public concession, Gore retracted his concession, and a long recount process entailed.

In 2002, VNS contracted with the Battelle Memorial Institute of Ohio to provide a software upgrade, but Battelle failed to produce. On election night that year, the networks announced that there would be no exit poll data, either for analysis of the vote or for projections, because of glitches in the new software. VNS was disbanded in 2003 [7] and NEP was formed. [6]
sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Election_Pool
archive.is/Q1cPy

this.

"In the summer of 1964, ABC, CBS, and NBC, along with the AP and UPI wire
services jointly formed an organization called the News Election Service (NES)
to pool resources to gather vote count information. By joining forces, the
news organizations hoped to get more accurate vote totals nationwide than any
one organization could get on its own. The calling of races and the
interpretation of election results, though, were done separately by the individual
news organizations.
In 1967, Warren Mitofsky, widely known as the “father of exit polling,” began
conducting them for CBS News. Advances in computer technology enabled
the quick analysis of large amounts of data, and the competition to have the
best election night coverage drove the development of the methodology. Exit
polls collect information gathered from large numbers of citizens (more than
100,000) as they leave their polling place on Election Day. Most importantly,
exit polls ask for whom the voters cast their ballot, but they also gather
demographic information to determine whether differences in such things as
income, age, race, gender, and education impacted voting patterns. Typically,
the exit poll also questions the voter’s position on issues that were important in
the race. On election night, analysts tell the story of the election using all of
this information, which is broken down state by state, critical to telling the
electoral college story, and nationally."
shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/d42_sproul.pdf

you seem triggered by Elliot

maximum shillage
"Things started going badly for exit polling in the 2000 election. In such a close
presidential race, with Florida being a decisive state, VNS made a bad call.
Even before all the polls had closed in the state, VNS called Florida for Al
Gore at 7:52 p.m. The networks and the AP made the same call, all at about
the same time. Some two hours later, the call was withdrawn. At
approximately 2:00 a.m., the networks (but not VNS and AP) called Florida for
George Bush, and that call was withdrawn within another two hours. The
election was simply too close to call.
The evening’s mistakes cannot be blamed on exit polling alone. The problems
had as much to do with bad vote counts and bad information reported by local
election officials as they did with any problems from the VNS election models.
However, in the aftermath of the 2000 election problems, each television news
organization commissioned a report on its own election night errors. In those
reports, several concerns about exit polling were raised."

We don't take kindly to strangers around here.

I appreciate all the bumps
"7
Much of the internal criticism focused on how exit polls were done and how
projections were made. The conclusion of CNN’s publicly released review
summarizes what the other networks found as well:
The supposedly sophisticated system of polling is not nearly
sophisticated enough. It is a flawed system that fails to take into
full account many dynamic factors—absentee balloting, early
voting, demographic change in key precincts, a declining response
rate to polling generally, the quality of questionnaires, vote
undercount, mistaken balloting, computer error, human error, and
more.
3
Recommendations for fixing the exit polls post-2000 included upgrading the
VNS computer system, reviewing the statistical models, conducting additional
research on the non-response and exit poll errors, studying the absentee voter
situation, and providing quality control in the vote counting operations.
4
The networks and the Associated Press have continued exit polling in each
general election since 2000, and have worked hard to fix the problems
identified seven years ago. Pressure from the public and politicians in
particular to “get it right” has been constant. There have been calls to end exit
polling, mostly because of controversies over early projections and the 2000
election problems. Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford led a
bipartisan review of the 2000 elections, reporting to Congress on July 31, 2001.
The National Commission on Federal Election Reform was highly critical of
exit polls and made the following recommendation: “The Commission strongly
encourages citizens not to participate in exit polling.”
5"

no problem

and providing quality control in the vote counting operations.

I thought Holla Forums might have some more information to add…

anti slide

I love it when there's a solution waiting for a problem.

but what do you mean?

...