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Originally Posted by hevusa "Exit poll data - asking voters which way they voted as they leave the polls - are used around the world as excellent predictors of actual vote counts, usually accurate within a fraction of a point. Exit polls in this election seemed to match the vote tallies, as usual, except in those areas using touchscreen voting machines (like the Diebold Accuvote) or other software or modem-mediated electronic systems (like those from ES&S) with no paper trail - used by approximately one third of voters, many in swing states. 80% of all US voters [emphasis in original article] use some kind of voting machine from one of these two companies." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy,_exit_ polls | Exit polls don't mean Jack Crap - unless, of course, they say what YOU want them to say.
I've had several people tell me that they simply told the "exit poller" the wrong thing, because they think exit polls are stupid. Something tells me that there are a LOT of people who do the same thing. |