>Apropos of exit polls, has there been any discussion there of
>the role exit polls might play in detecting irregularities in the
>official vote counting?
Not among the AAPOR crowd, for sure. But they all cluster around the political center, with no representation of the ideological tail except me. I took some shit from them a few years ago when I said that Reps in Congress prohibited the professionals in the Census Bureau from using statistical techniques to adjust for undercounts (mainly of nonwhite/urban/poor people) because it would increase funding and representation of the kinds of people they don't like and who don't vote for them. They thought my claim was outrageous, irresponsible, reckless, etc.
Doug