Conyers calls on TV networks and AP to release raw exit poll data

[nmoliver]

http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/conyers_exit_polls_1221.php

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

The following letter, issued by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich), calls on the five major television networks and the Associated Press to release the raw exit poll data from the 2004 presidential election. The letter below, acquired by RAW STORY late this afternoon, is a facsimile; the congressman's office said an actual image of the letter will not be released until Wednesday.

The letter was sent to: Anne Sweeney, Co-Chairman, Media Networks, The Walt Disney Company and President, Disney-ABC Television Group; Bob Wright, President, NBC; Gail Berman, President, FOX; Jim Walton President, CNN; Thomas Curley, President, Associated Press; and Andrew Heyward, President, CBS.

"As you are aware, the American citizenry has voiced a collective lack of faith in government to carry out fair election procedures," Conyers writes. "It is important that the Judiciary Committee access raw voter poll data so that discrepancies between those numbers and certified election results can be investigated...Without the raw data, the Committee will be severely handicapped in its efforts to show the need for serious election reform in the United States."

http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/conyers_exit_polls_1221.php

[bush_is_wacko]

1. Wouldn't he have the right to supeona this information?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. I don't believe he does. This is not a Congressional Sanctioned committee.

[nmoliver]

3. definitely not. The Republicans control the committee. n/t