Does anyone know if the exit poll problem has been fixed?

[randr]

[wurzel]

1. Exit polls were never a problem.

It was the exit polls that told us something was very wrong in Florida. Without them we would not have known. The only problem with exit polls is not taking them

[blondeatlast]

2. What he (she?) said. Up the 411 if you want specifics. nt

[randr]

4. My recollection is different

I recall that many exit poll stations could not provide information due to a problem in the programing of their computers.
ParanoidPat is on to something I think.
Has there been any indication of any alternatives on the upcoming election?

[ParanoidPat]

3. No exit polling, no problem!

You might want to read this.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/mouv4x8/R030504a_10.pdf

Suspicion Surrounds Voter News Service
by Lynn Landes 1/20/03

It doesn't add up. Why is Voter News Service (VNS) really going out of business? That's only one of many
questions that dog VNS, a private consortium of the major news organizations that allegedly projected election
night winners using exit polls. VNS is owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News,
and NBC News. But VNS has always conducted its operations in a highly secretive manner.

I want to know why VNS sent surveys to counties asking them for information about the kinds of voting machines
the counties used? Why should VNS care? What do voting machines have to do with exit poll projections? The
voting machine industry is completely dominated by Republicans. Many people believe that the major news
networks are also dominated by Republican ownership. Is there a connection between VNS closing its doors, the
increased use of computerized voting machines, and the growing disparity between pre-election polling predictions
and election results - a disparity that appears to heavily favor Republican candidates? Are we witnessing election
fraud on a massive scale and is VNS involved?

One reason VNS is shutting down could NOT be, as VNS spokespeople continue to claim, that they screwed up
the 2000 election exit polling in Florida. Any comprehensive review of the Florida vote count proves that VNS's
projection was correct...Gore would have won Florida handily had it not been for uncounted "over-votes", the
notorious butterfly ballot, and the illegal removal of 91,000 names of mostly black and Democratic registered
voters from the rolls by a Texas firm hired by Jeb Bush's Secretary of State.

The second reason VNS has offered for closing its doors is that they couldn't handle the technical and logistic
demands of Election Day exit polling. What has changed from previous years? After all, the major news networks
have claimed that they've been processing election data and using computers and thousands of temporary
employees since the mid-1960's. For this last election VNS even hired the well known, if not controversial,
Battelle Memorial Institute to revamp their system. The hiring of Battelle, a major military defense and government
intelligence contractor, raised the eyebrows of many observers who believe that there may be a connection
between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and VNS. Some suspect that the CIA doesn't limit its legendary
vote rigging abilities to elections in foreign countries.

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[Kahuna]

5. Problem? There was no problem. The exit polls which should test the

integrity of the results were correct. More people voted for Gore in Florida in 2000. For the media to suggest otherwise proves how dishonest they are.