The most accurate poll in elections is the exit poll

[FlatBaroque]

The exit poll showed a 4% spread. That would have been a huge loss for the establishment. I hope Team Bernie is collecting all the evidence and will use it to swing delegates at the convention. I no longer wish to be living under machine politics. END CLINTONISM NOW!

[SidDithers]

1. ...

Sid

[FlatBaroque]

2. A facebook post voicing the same concern

John Poundstone
10 hrs ·
A troubling and important issue in tonight's results, exit polls show a 4% lead for Hillary Clinton, but with 95% of Precincts reporting the Clinton lead is 15%. Exit polls are not that inaccurate and the media outlets who produced those poll numbers have no interest in understating Clinton's lead. So why is there such a vast discrepancy? A nearly 4 to 1 mistake in polling? Not likely. Also note that the millions of Independents not allowed to vote and the 128,000+ Dem voters who were purged did not get to vote and therefore cannot have distorted those exit polls. So how did this happen? The results are red flags for any experienced election observer. This can only have one of two factual causes, either the media has lost all ability to conduct an exit poll (highly unlikely as the exiting voter has no reason to misrepresent their voting) or the vote recording and counting has been compromised by some sort of systemic error or fraud. Given the reports coming from other states and large numbers of Precincts across NY today... I suggest the issues are systemic and fraud based. Again, I am an experienced election official from the Democratic party with decades of experience in US election operations and as an international observer of Elections across Africa.

[SheenaR]

24. And CNN

Is one of the few outlets in the world approved for exit polling.

Strange indeed

Not saying we would have won. But it is what it is

[CoffeeCat]

46. Well, it's interesting

Because let's say it was a 4-5 point race and Bernie would have lost. Bernie would have won 75 percent of all NY counties. He would have most likely earned more delegates in NY than Clinton. Most NY delegates are awarded on a proportional basis by the outcome in each congressional district.

If this was a very close race, Bernie would have ended up winning more delegates than Clinton. This is because Bernie was wining far more counties that Clinton was. Bernie won 75 percent of NY counties.

They couldn't have that happen, now could they?

[bkkyosemite]

26. compromised fraud........

[grossproffit]

3. Oh dear.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. So actually counting all the votes is irrelevant?

And only a Poll matters?

LOL

[FlatBaroque]

8. Why yes, that's precisely what I said!! Actually I don't speak Clintonese

so we won't be able to chat.

[Agnosticsherbet]

25. Then I will take you at your word.

LOL.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

36. There were election projection experts...

There were election projection experts who said the CNN exit polls were horribly flawed the moment they were released:



Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 6m6 minutes ago
CNN exit polls appear incredibly poor today.

Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 2m2 minutes ago
Making a race call: Clinton will win the 2016 New York Democratic Primary. Margin call at 30%. Clinton overperforming benchmarks EVERYWHERE


Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 17m17 minutes ago
Exit polls may be very wrong. Regardless, Clinton is killing it in delegats at the CD level.


Benchmark Politics ‏@benchmarkpol 4m4 minutes ago
Clinton beating benchmarks everywhere. Winning in Putnam, a Sanders County.
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[jehop61]

10. Just love

the amount of spin we're seeing this morning.

[tex-wyo-dem]

35. It's a pretty simple concept, really...

Exit polls are used in democratic elections across the world used as an oversight metric to the actual election results, which are frequently affected by fraud. Red flags are raised when the discrepancy of election results and exit polls exceeds a certain threshold (8% or greater is what I have read in the past). The discrepancy in NY last night is ~12%.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross says hi./nt

[Surya Gayatri]

31. And, she says, "My book might help"...LOL!

[factfinder_77]

6. Exit polls overweighted Buffalo.

It was a bad night for CNN

move on..

[CrowCityDem]

7. Correction: The most accurate poll is the vote count.

[FlatBaroque]

50. Not in the US of A it ain't. Not even close. Not since 2000, at least. /

[uponit7771]

9. This is false, the most accurate poll is the vote count

[winter is coming]

11. Apparently, exit polls are only significant in third world countries.

[Zynx]

12. They're not to check the vote total to within a few points.

They're to make sure that the election outcome roughly makes sense.

[winter is coming]

15. Ten points is not "a few". n/t

[Zynx]

23. Initial rounds of exit polls can be demographically very different from the final rounds.

Different groups of people vote materially different.

[winter is coming]

37. CNN was reporting a four point spread after the polls closed.

That's not "early". This big a difference doesn't pass the smell test.

[Zynx]

40. They don't tabulate all of the results of the exit polls until about 2 hours after the polls close.

[FlatBaroque]

14. I wish Jimmy Carter would monitor our elections

I always thought that Republicans were the ones who would use election fraud to secure a nominal victory. I was wrong.

One of the many things that Bernie has accomplished is drawing the curtain back on the corruption and machine politics in the country's large cities. It is now up to us to upend this horrible disaster of a 2 party system.

[winter is coming]

16. With electronic voting, I'm not sure our elections are transparent enough TO monitor.

It's a feature.

[FlatBaroque]

17. I always wondered why the Dem establishment never complained about electronic

election fraud. Now I know.

[J_J_]

56. +10000

n/t

[farleftlib]

18. Jimmy Carter has already stated the US

is now a democracy in name only. And he would know. The fact that he came right out and said it means the party is over. This primary has been one massive screw up after another, all favoring HRC. I don't need a house to fall on me to see what is going on. I almost wish I didn't see it.

[FlatBaroque]

19. I feel the same way. It is a nightmare from which I cannot awaken.

[farleftlib]

21. I know

Only 240 years and we're in such a state of decline I don't know if even Bernie could stop it. Plenty of money for wars but nothing that helps people. And so many buy into that.

[FlatBaroque]

34. That is my nightmare. A full on engagement in Syria, back in Iraq, and Iran

No money to help fix our domestic problems.

I am praying for a criminal indictment.

[J_J_]

57. I have that same nightmare

Many people do, and if she 'wins' this nomination, we are going to be stuck with Trump which is another nightmare. We are screwed.

[jg10003]

52. K&R

[MisterP]

58. like the 2009 Honduran vote where they banned abstentionism, murdered opponents,

any honest candidate withdrew, and it was condemned by the UN, Carter Center, and OAS

or the 2013 one where the only honest candidate was consistently ahead in the polls but then mysteriously "lost" after open vote-buying, voter intimidation, and murder of 18 opponent candidates and activists

both were used by Washington to legitimate a coup regime in the hope that things would go quiet and become a fait accompli

[ViseGrip]

13. Exit polls can't include voters disenfranchized who should have been allowed.

So I wonder if 4 points was even there....

[Capt. Obvious]

20. "The problem with them is that most analysts and readers treat them as if they’re infallible."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/upshot/exit-polls-why-they-so-often-mislead.html?_r=0

[FlatBaroque]

22. Thanks for the link, but I do not consider the NYTimes to be credible on any subject except

reporting the sports scores, travel, and crossword puzzles.

[Buzz Clik]

28. ... because they don't tell you what you want to hear. Many on the right feel exactly the same way.

Go figure.

[Capt. Obvious]

29. It doesn't matter which link I shared out of the simple internet search returns

as they're all in on this conspiracy.

[tex-wyo-dem]

51. Of course exit polls aren't "infallible"...what a stupid comment...

By the NYT. Neither exit polls or actual vote counts are infallible and will have a certain error.

Fraud committed in democratic elections throughout the world are fairly commonplace. One purpose of exit polls is as a competitive metric to the "official" vote results. Historically, if the official and exit poll discrepancy exceeds a certain threshold, then red flags should be raised for an investigation. The threshold varies, but as I understand it is typically around 5-8%.

[Buzz Clik]

27. The most accurate figures come from the voting.

[LadyHawkAZ]

30. Democrats- Total Faith in Election Results since 2016

[Buzz Clik]

33. When you claim that every fucking election is rigged, people stop listening.

Have you noticed?

[LadyHawkAZ]

38. People can be persuaded to believe some strange shit

That doesn't change facts. Our elections have been tampered with for some time.

[Buzz Clik]

39. Every election? Every one? And only Sanders is the target?

No.

[LadyHawkAZ]

42. Refer back to the photo in my other post

Neither man is named Sanders.

[Buzz Clik]

45. No kidding. And neither one is running this year. And neither one claimed tampering in every state.

Your point?

[LadyHawkAZ]

47. Your claim:

"The most accurate figures come from the voting".
You were wrong.

I haven't seen claims of tampering in every state, just the states with verified suppression.

[RandySF]

32. There were past exits that overestimated Hillary

I didn't cry foul over that. It's also possible that Bernie's supporters were more anxious to respond.

[firebrand80]

41. That was ONE exit poll

We don't know that they all were same

[DemocracyDirect]

43. Interesting how exit poll and votes correspondence doesn't mean anything anymore...

I guess we should just be realistic about Democracy.

[FlatBaroque]

48. That should be of some concern because in many countries, exit polling is used

as a primary defense to ferret out election fraud.

[Godhumor]

44. Ungh....

This is why my profession drinks...

[workinclasszero]

49. Exit polls are notorious for being wrong

[Half-Century Man]

54. Headline based on pre voting polls.

It was the case that caused the press to use exit polls to base predictions on.
All the votes wouldn't be completely counted until days later. Paper ballots counted by hand.

[eastwestdem]

53. Not surprised at discrepancy, my 3 daughters are afraid to tell their friends they are pro-Hillary

I have two of voting age - 21 and 18, and a 13 year old. All report severe ridicule from their peers when saying anything positive about Hillary. The oldest has found a group of like-minded kids, and has in fact flipped several of their friends, but the younger two would rather just not make waves. I can totally see any of them coming out of a polling place with their friends, and lying to the pollsters. Bullying is a powerful thing.

[FlatBaroque]

55. Thank you. I just burst out laughing. That was quite Hillaryous.

All we can do is laugh in the face of this existential challenge to democracy.

[Retrograde]

59. Has anyone here ever seen an exit pollster?

I've voted in every election for the past 40 years, and I've never come across one. Of course, the last decade has been mostly mail-in votes, but still, how many polling sites can they hit? I suppose they could call, but then there are the people who block calls from non-recognized callers because they are tired of robocalls