General questions about Exit Polls

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After researching something last night on a local congressional race (that I believe was hacked, Damn you Delay!!), I found that JOHN KERRY WON DALLAS COUNTY(on election day.) He, however, was trounced in the "early voting." I early voted at one of the twenty-something precincts that had voting a full week before Election Day. The machine beeped and flashed at me when I picked Kerry/Edwards. It was kinda embarrassing.

I digress......Did Ohio/Iowa/Florida have "early voting" like this? Anyone registered in Dallas County could vote in one of these specific precincts and they would load the ballot from your home precinct into the machine.

Early voting was all Touch-screen, Election Day was OP-Scam in most of the county.

Did they conduct exit polling on the early voters?

This could make a real difference to the validity of our claims because if the REthugs were more prone to vote early (and often..) then the exit polls would dramatically favor the democrats. David Van Os was a candidate for the TX SC, and he also won on election day, but lost when the counted the early votes.

However....If this election was won by fraud, then it is definitely in the early voting/absentee numbers that the counties had counted before Election Day numbers started rolling in.

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1. kick

for visablility..... :hi:

[Yupster]

2. Texan here also probn

and I have asked the same question. In Texas a third of all the voters vote early, so if the exit poll doesn't account for them, then what good is it?

Or does it survey early voters too?

I don't know.

[skids]

3. Exit polling included early voters

They did a phone survey. See here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x125913

[ClintCooper2003]

4. Bush was winning by about 8 - 10 points in states that had......

early voting, HOWEVER! It is important to remember that the only states that have that two-week period of early voting are Republican states. For Bush to be ahead only 10 points in the early voting which INCLUDED Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, Kerry must have been doing really, really well in the Democratic strongholds.

Do you have any evidence that Bush was beating Kerry bigtime in Dallas County in the early voting? There was a slight Democratic shift in Dallas county from 2000 to 2004 so I just wonder if maybe that's one county where the Repukelicants padded the Shrub's totals.

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5. The results are available at...............

http://www.dalcoelections.org


The link to a .ZIP file is on the front page and it has three files in it

1 Election Day
2 Early (in person)
3 Early (Absentee)

Almost half of Dallas County voted early, and Bush just killed Kerry in these early voting tallies.

Yet........Kerry won in this county on Election Day.

Which I think is exactly opposite of some of the larger counties in North Carolina.