2006-11-07 01:22:54 · 6 answers · asked by racingdiego@sbcglobal.net 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
exit polls can not hurt an election as the people have already voted,
BUT
when those polls are used to manipulate how people vote, like in Fl 2000 when the winner was projected long before polls closed
2006-11-07 01:27:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You all do not understand the purpose of exit polls. Exit poll are not meant to "call" a race the second the polls close. They provide information about the dynamics of the country and why the people voted the way they did. There is a substantial amount of information available in the exit polls. A neat feature of exit polls is that the races can be declared very quickly after the polls close.
Exit polls actually benefit elections. They provide the candidates information about what the public wants to see. For example in 2006 corruption and Iraq is a huge issue. Senators, governors and other political figures should work with that information to come up with solutions to answer the concerns of the people.
2006-11-08 12:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Statistics Monkey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
exit polls are historically accurate to within 1% of the vote. That is why they have been in use over 100 years. This is how they catch voter fraud in other countries including the Ukrain which we supported the exit polls.
This is one of the few ways to detect fraud. Since there is a lot of voter fraud in the US --that is why they are trying to disredit the one way that we can tell their is fraud. The chance of the exit polls being worng in 2004 is one in 16,000 according to statisticians. The chance of Bush winning in Ohio, Pa, and Florida are only one in 60 million. The exit polls showed Kerry winning in a landslide. Interestingly at 1 AM the vote margins essentially reversed. they claimed it was because the religious right all ran out out the last minute. In Ohio, the state to determin who won, it was not suburban whites standing in lines when the polls closed to as late as 2 AM. It was blacks, the poor, and college students..all generlly the base of the democrats..they cheated and you want to take away the one way of trying to prove the machines are hackable.
ps-watch the documentary "hacking democracy" this week on HBO..it is also on youtube (about 1 hour and 40 minutes long--well worth it).
2006-11-11 05:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by mindy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People being as dumb as they are, I'm tempted to say that exit polls do hurt elections. But then, people being as dumb as they are, I find myself wondering HOW they can hurt elections!
2006-11-07 09:33:08 · answer #4 · answered by Jack430 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Polls period are stupid .
You can twist a poll 6 ways from Sunday to get a result you want .
Any time I get polled , I lie .
2006-11-07 09:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkkpQGyTESXtsvQDCfbmOsvsy6IX?qid=20061109165305AAnh4DT
citizen can conduct exit polls too as we did.
2006-11-11 05:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋