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Reply #5: The exit poll in the US is designed for a specific purpose. [View All]

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euler Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 02:18 PM
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5. The exit poll in the US is designed for a specific purpose.
When used for that purpose, it's accurate and useful. In the second paragraph of my post:

Exit polls, used by the National Election Pool (NEP) and the decision desks of their news organization members, are best suited for determining the difference between the two leading candidates and whether it is safe to call a particular race for one of them.

See my post #2 below for another quote explaining that exit polls that can verify the actual vote count are much more costly. It's possible to design a exit poll that gives MSM what they want, plus the capability to verify the actual vote, but it's much more costly. Who will pay ?

Your question is answered in several different ways in the paper, so read the whole thing.
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