Reply #25: The procedure with the exit poll change is that after [View All]

[truedelphi]

The votes are tallied up and the final tally is arrived at, then the exit poll data is "re-aligned" with the outcome.

This happened in the wee hours of Nov 3rd 2004 - the exit polls clearly showed that Kerry had won, and yes, as you say, this data SHOULD only be changed in regard to the addditional votes as the votes come in. But then when it was all over, the networks (who are the ones paying for the polls) went in and changed the exit poll data. Even though they should not have.

Many DU'ers kept running screen shots of all this data at the time. There was much speculation about it.

And you are not wrong - these polls and their data SHOULD NOT be changed. But apparently in this corporate controlled state, life in Amerika demands that we have our media manufacture consent and the "appearance" of democracy.