2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Dem Primary Anomalies Must Be Thoroughly Investigated Before Choosing a Nominee [View all]Time for change
(13,737 posts)The fact that there are several potential sources of errors for exit polls does not mean that they are not the gold standard, and it certainly doesn't mean that they are less accurate than official vote counts when the counting is done by machines that are owned and run by right wing corporations and can be easily programmed to switch votes from one candidate to another with very little oversight.
Are you familiar with with the audit in Chicago, which revealed large deviations in the hand counts compared with the machine counts? I referred to that in the OP. Did you read it? Did you look at the link?
If exit polls are so bad, then why are they routinely used in this country to help call elections? Are you aware that Maryland was called for Clinton with 0.0% of the vote in? What do you think that call was based on?
All the potential sources of error in exit polls added together don't come anywhere near the potential error from election fraud. I'm not asking that that the exit polls alone should be used to switch the official count. I'm just asking that it when they are suggestive of election fraud, which they are in several states during this primary season, that they be thoroughly investigated with hand count audits.
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