GREECE: AP says exits show major parties have enough seats for a pro-Euro coalition.

[TheWraith]

We're still waiting to see which party comes out on top.

Edited to add: on Twitter, Nate Silver is saying that the New Democracy Party is favored to win the largest share of the vote and seats.

[jannyk]

1. So the right wingers are winning? nt

[kenny blankenship]

2. Much like an American election, rural districts come in before urban districts

Early results may skew stronger to the right than the final result.
Also, bear in mind that even if the ND Quisling gang come out on top in this election, unless they manage to secure a really large majority, which is unlikely, any government they form probably won't survive through the fall. They will be on the hook for delivering scorched earth austerity measures they have promised to the Germans, and the bill will start coming due in the fall. Expect more unrest and no confidence votes.

[TheWraith]

3. Looks like it. nt

[jannyk]

4. Greek Interior Ministry calls it for New Dems (barely)

from BBC Website (via Reuters):

Breaking News

Official projection of result: New Democracy - 29.5%, Syriza - 27.1%. That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.

[kenny blankenship]

10. But as Samaras' Interior Minister, he might be a leeeetle biased

The projection was based on votes counted on the spot at about 12 percent of polling stations and sent to the ministry via text message. It proved highly accurate in an earlier May 6 election, which produced stalemate, though the figures are subject to a margin of error which leaves a degree of uncertainty.

"If we were in the United States, we would say it's too close to call and decline to publish a forecast," said Costas Panagopoulos of pollster Alco.

[TheWraith]

11. So if that holds out, looks like NDP will have 124 seats.

Compared to Syriza's 67 or 68. Unless I've screwed up my math. (For anyone who doesn't know, the top vote getter receives a bonus of an additional 50 seats.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Exit polls are so yesterday

Haven't you heard? They are completely unreliable.

Oh wait, I forgot .. exit polls are ONLY unreliable the USA.

Never-mind.

[TheWraith]

9. Sigh.

Once again, since some people seem to have trouble with nuance... No, they're not entirely reliable. Although they're much more reliable once you match them against early returns. However, it's hardly difficult to say that the parties which favor remaining part of the Eurozone have won a majority, when they did so by at least 6 points.

[99th_Monkey]

12. KOS & Fitzrakis have it right IMHO

"Now I should explain something about exit polls in the U.S. In recent years, the practice of the consortium of news organizations that run the exit polls of presidential elections has been to "adjust" the exit polls to match the final official count. It is assumed that the official count is accurate and that the raw data of the initial exit polls, if different, must be inaccurate. (Charnin, in the quote above, is comparing unadjusted exit poll data to the official counts.)

In this respect, U.S. elections are different from elections held in the rest of the world, where properly done exit polls are the chief means of finding electoral fraud--if the official count departs from the exit poll by a significant degree, that is evidence of vote rigging."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/17/1100706/-Red-Shift-why-it-s-important

"If vote-rigging prospers, none may call it vote-rigging. It simply becomes the new norm. Once again, the universal laws of statistics apply only outside U.S. borders. The recall vote in Wisconsin produced another significant 7% discrepancy between the unadjusted exit poll and the so-called "recorded vote." In actual social science, this level of discrepancy, with the results being so far outside the expected margin of error would not be accepted."
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2012/1936

Are you completely unaware of the US's duplicitous and absurd trashing of exit polls in US, as smokescreen for electronically stealing elections for the RW GOP, all the while still holding them a "gold standard" for evaluating fairness of elections in every other nation?

Say it's not so.

[malaise]

6. One more rigged election

I've had enough

[RB TexLa]

8. what excatly do you think was done?

[bluestateguy]

7. If true the screaming yo-yos on the floor of the NYSE will like that very much

until they find something else to bitch about in 2-3 days.

(whining) "Oh, but there's so much uncertainty out there..."