DU This Petition: TrueVote.us - Tell The Media To Report All Exit Poll Results!

[Hissyspit]

From Mark Crispin Miller:

That is, their unadjusted exit poll results.

MCM

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1331/t/6410/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26158

Please take action to urge the media to report the unadjusted exit polls for the 2008 election.

Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International will again conduct all exit polling in 2008 for the National

Voters should be provided with the unadjusted exit polls and if adjustments are made to the final polls they should be explained publicly. Major media outlets are urged to archive all of the interim exit poll results to allow independent analysis later. Election integrity advocates must push for greater transparency since large-sample exit polls can and should be used be used to audit vote totals.

When the U.S. government audits the vote in a foreign country, the tool of choice is always a large-sample exit poll, which will identify problems in the vote totals. Yet, in the United States, even with the documented problems we have had in voting , our own government does not use the best tool available.

News and political divisions of the major networks must plan to archive all of the preliminary exit poll results since the overall survey will quickly be adjusted by the vendor to match the published vote totals, and will thus no longer be useful as an audit of the integrity of the vote totals.

Please send a letter to the networks by clicking here. The letter demands that the unadjusted exit polls be made public, that the preliminary exit polls be archived and that any adjustments be explained so that the National Exit Poll can be used as a tool to audit the election results.

Sincerely,

Kevin Zeese

Executive Director, TrueVote.US

TrueVote.US is a project of the
Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics

[dipsydoodle]

1. When the U.S. government audits the vote in a foreign country

their sole interest is in getting the result THEY want and not necessarily what the people of those countries want or deserve.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Done! Very important! Let's have the REAL exit polls! K&R

[dartuser]

4. Exit Polls

Problem is ... people lie to the exit pollsters.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Bullshit.

Exit polls were amazingly accurate until 2000.

[tbyg52]

14. You used up your one and only first post to say that?

Oh well....! :hi:

[arthritisR_US]

3. done! n/t

[Igel]

5. I think they should post the raw numbers.

Everything else is run through a set of assumptions.

Of course, the raw numbers are meaningless without context, demographics, info on non-respondents, on the electorate as a whole, etc., etc. All the stuff that the pollster's assumptions take into account in weighting and calculating what the exit poll numbers *should* be.

Well, if the pollster's assumptions are right. If they're not--if turnout is higher or lower in some areas, of the electorate isn't as dem or repub as he assumed, if the age distribution isn't what he thought it would be, etc., etc.--then the numbers are just wrong.

Any use of exit poll numbers has to take into account those all too fallible assumptions.

[babylonsister]

7. Rec'd! nt

[Triana]

8. Just signed. K & R

[MasonJar]

9. Done! Come on, DUers! This is crucial.

[Duncan]

10. done

WTF DU? This should be done by every DUer who sees this.
Thanks Hissy.

[Duncan]

11. Is there any evidence

that petitions to the media do anything?
I assume there is, but I would like easy access to it.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Done

Thanks for the info.

[mhatrw]

13. Big Kick! n/t

[Pastiche423]

15. Signed!

[BeFree]

16. Kick