The stage is set to ban "Exit Polls" in the future. So there will be no

[Sara Beverley]

way to ID suspicious results. I'm sorry, it is sheer lunacy to have an elections in which the votes cannot be verified in this electronic age.

[Cleita]

1. Marco Polo and other merchants of Venice

would have been aghast at the single entry system used. They knew the merits of traceable documents even back then.

[UCLA Dem]

2. It should be illegal to report the exit polls until the election is over.

that way they can't effect voter turnout. otherwise banning them is madness as you said.

[Eloriel]

9. affecting voter turnout isn't the issue THIS time, it's

how "wrong" they were compared to "actual" results.

Edited to add: IOW, worthless, unreliable, ought to be done away with.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Unbelievable , This is so surreal.

I hope we can stop that on time.

[Erika]

4. Bush Is Setting the Stage For a Banana Republic

voting rights.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. They have stolen 2000, 2002, 2004!

That 3 in a row! I'm freaking out!

[PATRICK]

5. They tried that before after 2000

Blew it off in the easy theft of 2002. Now the blind triumph of 2004 and the nervous overstealing.

If things go as they have for four years we'll have the instant analysis of Internet voting not the smashing of the crooked electronic system.
Exit polls are collateral damage of the greater loss.

[PATRICK]

6. They tried that before after 2000

Blew it off in the easy theft of 2002. Now the blind triumph of 2004 and the nervous overstealing.

If things go as they have for four years we'll have the instant analysis of Internet voting not the smashing of the crooked electronic system.
Exit polls are collateral damage of the greater loss.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Exit polls shouldn't be necessary anyway. There should be auditing

of all races by a nonpartisan group. That's right, actual auditing of the votes, along WITH exit polling.

An international election watching group would be best.

But Americans don't see themselves as living in a corrupt banana republic yet, despite the fact that the rest of the world, and those of us who pay attention, do.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. kick

[robcon]

11. Who could ban them?

They are political speech. There is no way to ban them. There wasn an attempt to hold them back until the polls were closed (which the internet defeated.) But how can they be banned?