Is there any way we can demand / influence Exit Polling

[Bandit]

Exit Polls have been 100% accurate in all the years they have been used except for Florida . Because of their failure in Florida (and we know they didn't fail) they have been intimidated to quit doing the polling. Is there anyway we can influence them to start again?

[Raster]

1. Except for Florida and a couple of extremely questionable races....

...in Georgia and Nebraska. Max Cleland was defeated in George, where exit polling AND regular phone polling showed him the clear winner. Unfortunately, that's also were those new-fangled electronic voting machines were used.

[Mistress Quickly]

2. I live in GA

and I think Cleland did lose, no games played. Well, no games played on election day, but during the campaign...

just my $.02 though.

[Raster]

4. Care to reconsider......

Stolen Election 2002

Evidence Grows that 2002 Georgia Election Was Rigged
14-Oct-03
Stolen Election 2002

Wired reports, "A former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with GA election officials. If the charges are true, Diebold could be in violation of federal and state election-certification rules. The charges also raise questions about the integrity of the GA election results... said the practice of patching systems after they've been certified opens the possibility for anyone to install malicious code on a machine that could alter election results and then delete itself to avoid detection. According to Harris, this scenario is particularly worrisome in light of what happened in the GA gubernatorial race, which ended in a major upset that defied all polls and put a Republican in the governor's seat for the first time in more than 130 years" - as well as the surprise "loss" of Sen. Max Cleland.

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http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Stolen%20Election%202002
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The Georgia Elections 2002

All of Georgia’s voters used Diebold machines for the 2002 elections. The incumbent Democratic Governor Ray Barnes was ahead of his Republican challenger Sonny Perdue by 11 percentage points just two days before the election according to a poll taken by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But, for the first time in 134 years, the Republican won the Governor’s seat.

Similar surprising results happened in the Georgia Senate race. Again, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported two days before the election that Democratic incumbent Max Cleland was five points ahead of the Republican challenger, Saxby Chambliss. Yet Chambliss won by 7 percent, an amazing 12 point shift in 48 hours.(10) Soon after the election results were certified, Diebold wiped clean all the voting machines. No machine inspection. No paper trail. This pattern was repeated in surprise Republican Senate race victories in Minnesota and Colorado (another significant black box State), giving the Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.

Bev Harris, author of Black box voting: Ballot-tampering in the 21st Century (available at www.blackboxvoting.org ), found a trove of Diebold program files on the web. One of the folders was called "rob.georgia." Bev Harris burned all the information on 7 CD’s. As a result of her new knowledge, she was able to gain back door access and successfully change vote totals if she so desired and erase any audit trail of her actions. She also found that Diebold’s GEMS central server could "create minus votes." Diebold Spokesman David Bear also told Vanity Fair: "Yes, negative votes can be entered into GEMS." (11) Now, why would a computer program designed to add up the vote want to take away anybody’s democratic vote? One possible answer is to fix an election.

Enter Rob Behler, who serviced Georgia’s Diebold during the summer of 2002, just before the Georgia election. Rob claims 25% of the machines just didn’t work. Some machines were replaced. New patches were installed. Amazingly, "Not one of Diebold’s 22,000 patched machines in Georgia was evaluated by Wyle and Ciber or thus qualified by NASED (State & Federal certification checkers) to be used in an election in November, 2002." (12) No one knows what new informational programming was contained in the patches added to the Diebold machines before the election. No governmental agency carried out any inspection after the patches were installed.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html

[bloom]

3. Who actually did it before? - Network TV?

It would be great if some established, moderate group like the "League of Women Voters" would take it on.