This Just In: Exit Polls Aren't Reliable
From New York Times' "The Caucus":
"At about 9:25, Fox News' Michael Barone announced that the channel will not be relying on exit poll data anymore to make its calls, but will rely on actual vote tabulations and historical models. They have found that the Democratic overrepresentation in the exit polls was 6 to 8 percent in many areas."
Exit Polls: Harming Democrats
I'd second the above comments. Interesting how exit polls seemed to be reliable... until 2004, when we suddenly also began hearing more reports of electronic voting errors harming Democrats, voter fraud, etc.
Exit Polls: Michael
Throughout the world, exit polls are used by external observers to verify the integrity of elections. Why is it in the United States we suddenly dont trust them? The exit polls are correct. When we see discrepancies, its not bad statistics, its questionable voting equipment and/or a sign of fraud.
Exit Polls: Robocalls
Widespread fraud and dirty tricks in 2006 again as in 2004.
Throughout the day accusations of election fraud and voter suppression incidents have been flooding into state and federal authorities throughout the country. In Virginia, the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into charges of voter suppression. In 20 Congressional districts, NRCC robocalls appearing to come from Democrats harassed voters with repeated calls in an apparently coordinated campaign to suppress the vote.
Exit Polls: Matched Documentation
It's not a bias, it's been documented from 2004 to be due to fraud and manipulation by the Republicans. The huge non-partisan monitoring effort documente huge swings to Repubs due to manipulation and fraud in over 20 states. The exit polls matched the documentation of the manipulation.
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