The NYT reveals that the state of Florida tried to do the same thing that Ken Blackwell tried to do on election day in 2004---keep exit pollsters more than 100 feet away from the polls, so that there would be no evidence when the votes were miscounted.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Florida-Exit-Polls.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=sloginWhy is this a smoking gun? The farther exit pollsters are from the polls, the less reliable their results are. By 100 feet, the results of their exit polls are piss poor. In 2004, Ken Blackwell tried to surprise the press by issuing a ruling on election mornining that would have kept exit pollsters 100 feet away from the polls. When I saw this, I knew that he knew that the final vote tally would not match the exit poll results---i.e vote tallying fraud was planned. He decided to make the exit polls unreliable so that when the discrepancy was noticed, the GOP could say "You can not trust an exit poll that is performed that far from the polls." Fortunately, the press went to the courts and got an injunction and did their polls and the results were leaked and we all saw the results.
I have posted this fact on the internet often enough that I did not think that any other state would try it. I guess Florida is desperate. Luckily a federal judge has struck down this plan. Exit polls will be conducted in s scientific fashion, which will make it harder for those who tabulate the votes to cheat--especially if the poll numbers are released this time, which I expect they will be. Bush is not holding out any promises of media mergers this election cycle.
There is only one reason why politicians would pick 100 feet and tell exit pollsters to stay beyond that distance. It is the magic number at which point their polls are worthless.
A 100 Foot Exit Poll Rule Is Always a Smoking Gun of Election Theft Does you state have plans to do the same?