The GAB shut down the Exit Polls in Wisonsin

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Tue Jul-12-11 06:53 PM
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The GAB shut down the Exit Polls in Wisonsin

Edited on Tue Jul-12-11 07:11 PM by robinlynne

Source: Mark Crispin Miller, News From Underground

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContacts:Jonathan Simon 617-538-6012

Sally Castleman 781-454-8700

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_GAB Shutting Down Non-Partisan Exit Polls in Wisconsin_

The Government Accounting Board (GAB), apparently changing their
regulations as they go along, has effectively shut down citizen-run exit
polls in today's Democratic Primary Recall Election in Wisconsin.

Despite having the GAB Regulations (ï¿½ï¿½5.35 (5), 7.37 (2))in hand plus a
letter from Kevin Kennedy, head of the GAB, both clearly allowing exit
polling, the GAB today, through GAB member David Buerger, has said that
the group is "electioneering" because candidates names appear on the
polling "ballot."He further dictated that no voter would be allowed to
touch an exit poll ballot, that pollsters can only verbally ask the
voters their responses.This despite the fact that Edison-Mitofsky, the
polling company commissioned by the Media Consortium to conduct Exit
Polling nationally over the last many years, uses /written /polling
ballots that the voters fill in themselves.

The polls were being run by concerned Wisconsin citizens volunteering
under the guidance of Election Defense Alliance and Protect California
Ballots, two non-partisan organizations with the mission of restoring
transparency to our elections.Both organizations have run non-partisan
exit polls many times in the past in close to a dozen states.Neither
group has ever been harassed in such a way before.

"This is reasoning beyond specious", saidJonathan Simon, Director of
Election Defense Alliance. "Exit polling in this country has been going
on for decades. To call it 'electioneering' simply because candidates
names appear on the poll ballot, when all names appear without any
advocacy involved, is absurd.This is concealment in OUR elections.Public
participation is being forbidden!"

"If exit polling has now conveniently been relabeled as 'electioneering'
this spells the end of exit polling in America and one of the last few
mechanisms for evaluating the legitimacy of official vote counts," added
Sally Castleman, National Chairperson of Election Defense Alliance.

"The implications for upcoming primary and general recall elections are
of the utmost importance" said Simon."This encroachment on the public
right of observation and participation must be challenged forcefully and
immediately."

"The irony of 'Government Accountability' is beyond belief," Simon added.

Voters leaving the polling station in *Menominee Falls*were reporting to
the pollsters that they were not being allowed to vote without photo
ID.When one of the volunteers tried to explain that the law says *a
photo ID is REQUESTED but not REQUIRED for this election, the Village
Clerk reprimanded her for "interfering." *

In another related story, robo-calls, reportedly coming from Virginia,
are being made to Democrats throughout the primary districts today
telling them not to vote today because an absentee ballot is in the mail.

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--- On *Thu, 6/9/11, Kennedy, Kevin - GAB

/<Kevin.Kenn...@Wisconsin.gov>/* wrote:

From: Kennedy, Kevin - GAB <Kevin.Kenn...@Wisconsin.gov>
Subject: RE: HOW FAR AWAY DOES AN EXIT POLLER HAVE TO BE?
To: "'Mary Magnuson'" <mary.magnu...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 6:16 PM

There is no distance restriction for exit polling. The distance
restriction for electioneering is 100 feet from any entrance to a
polling place. ï¿½12.03 (2)(b). The regulations governing exit polling are
those that restrict interfering with the conduct of the election or
distracting voters. We advise that exit polling may not happen in the
voting area or the building because this would distract voters. We also
say that the exit pollsters may not block access to the entrance to the
building containing a polling place. ï¿½ï¿½5.35 (5), 7.37 (2)

I have attached a letter that is given to the exit polling organizations.

Kevin J. Kennedy

Director and General Counsel

Wisconsin Government Accountability Board

608-266-8005

kevin.kenn...@wi.gov

No link yet.

Exit polls are the only inexpensive way to find election fraud. They are extremely important and serve as an indicator of fraud. because the voters answer right after voting, they remember how they voted and do not err. because they do it in secret on a ballot just like the ballot they voted on, there is no reason for them to give false answers. Statistically this is the best way to do an exit polls. Statistical probabilities can be calculated mathematically based on exit poll results. This is a BIG DEAL!!!

I am reposting before getting permission because it says : for immediate release.

edited to spell check.