http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_what.html
His entries about the exit polls results are interesting, especially this one where he expresses a quite a bit of skepticism about the official reason given for Kerry's lead in the exit polls:
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_mito.html
Which triggered for me an historical question: has there ever been a time and place where elections were systematically fraudulent (in the mechanical sense) and majority of the participants actually believed in their integrity?
-- adam
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:22:25 -0500, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I didn't know this: the exit pollsters adjust their results as
> official vote counts come in. So that exit poll showing Kerry ahead
> in Ohio at 12:21 AM that turned into Bush ahead at 1:41 AM was
> probably altered to conform to the vote count. So much for the
> checking function...
>
> Doug
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