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Silverhair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 11:51 AM
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25. Exit polls are NOT legal proof.
The counter argument is that the exit pollsters had flawed methodology. The actual vote trumps the exit polls. If it didn't, then why would we need to actually count votes?

Exit polls depend on sampling a correct representative mix of the voting population. You can easily err by picking the wrong times to poll, the wrong precincts to poll, not being careful to get a correct mix of white/black/Hispanic/other, men/women, older/middle/younger, etc.

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