POLITICS: Exit Poll Results Explained

For months now we have been hearing comments from the Democrats that there was fraudulent voting in the last presidential election. This claim was mostly based on the fact that there were differences in exit polls results and actual vote totals. According to this report, Kerry's results were overstated simply because more Kerry supporters participated in the exit polling than did Bush supporters. One other contributing factor that was mentioned was the early leaking of the exit poll numbers to the internet, which also contributed to the conspiracy theories.



Finally, we can put and end to all the claims of voter fraud based on exit poll results. According to the report, it is still unclear why miore Kerry supporters participated in the exit polls. It states that there could have been a number of motivational factors, but that they are difficult to quatify. The fact that the release of data on the internet contributed to the appearance of voter fraud is well born out by the sheer number of such threads here on ATS.

Truly, time to let the election go and move forward.

This is hardly proof that there was no election fraud, and we can't put the though of fraud behind us. This article is a theory, just like countless other theories out there.

However, the question they have is why did more Kerry voters participate in the exit polls than Bush supporters? The answer is simple. Because there WERE MORE Kerry supporters.

Originally posted by sensfan
This is hardly proof that there was no election fraud, and we can't put the though of fraud behind us. This article is a theory, just like countless other theories out there.

However, the question they have is why did more Kerry voters participate in the exit polls than Bush supporters? The answer is simple. Because there WERE MORE Kerry supporters.

Moveon.org "planted" liberal liars at the exit poll stations. This is a fact proven shortly after the election. The exit polls were a typical liberal LIE.

Originally posted by sensfan
This is hardly proof that there was no election fraud, and we can't put the though of fraud behind us. This article is a theory, just like countless other theories out there.

However, the question they have is why did more Kerry voters participate in the exit polls than Bush supporters? The answer is simple. Because there WERE MORE Kerry supporters.

I've said this before, and I will say it again.

There were Kerry supporters on college campuses and on Internet message boards. In small-town America, there were not.

I spend three-quarters of my time in a very liberal college town, and the other one-quarter in various other parts of the state and country, and I can tell you that there were virtually no "Kerry/Edwards" bumper stickers in the vast majority of the New York and North Carolina towns I visited.

You support yourselves and one another strongly... but you seriously overestimate your own numbers.

come on...

we all know that President Bush is behind all of this..... don't worry, it'll come out soon...

I am willing to bet alot of people told those taking the exit polls said it is none of your business who I voted for. When that happened more then likely they just said thats one vote for kerry.

Yeah and people lie too, if you're an elderly person and you're assaulted by a college aged exit poll worker with a peace-sign shirt and a bandana on her head, you'll probably either say "no comment" or lie and say you voted for Kerry.

Who does these exit polls are they real or are they made up. Do people lie about who they voted for that would change the numbers.
If Die-Bold makes ATM machines that disperses money and a receipt why cant' they make a voting machine that prints a receipt also, what is so technically difficult about that?

Originally posted by Sauron
Who does these exit polls are they real or are they made up. Do people lie about who they voted for that would change the numbers.
If Die-Bold makes ATM machines that disperses money and a receipt why cant' they make a voting machine that prints a receipt also, what is so technically difficult about that?

An exit poll is just that a poll. People can say anything they want - truth or lie. They can say they voted for Kerry when they didn't really vote at all. They can even say they voted for Kerry to 5 people working on the same poll to make it look like 5 people voted for Kerry when maybe it was only one. See, that's why all this emphasis on exit polls is just a load of BS.

Regarding the design of polling machines, I'm sure that if the manufacturers of the machines had been told that a receipt was a requirement, they would be there now. Guess no one thought that was important at the time the machines were ordered.

This whole article can be disregarded as propaganda/opinion by a simple logic analysis:

Originally posted by centurion1211
One other contributing factor that was mentioned was the early leaking of the exit poll numbers to the internet, which also contributed to the conspiracy theories.

"Early Leaking," can be mistaken from speculation. There are no pyshical basis to call any information on the internet a "leak," except for exit polls and their accuracy is such that we don't base an election winner off of them.

 

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The report said it is difficult to pinpoint precisely why, in general, Kerry voters were more likely to participate in the exit poll than were Bush voters. "There were certainly motivational factors that are impossible to quantify," the report said.

Exit polls are not being explained if the lion statement is, "difficult to pinpoint precisely." That sets you up for speculation and opinion based statements. Hardly proof of anything.

Problems with the numbers first surfaced on Election Day, when exit polls showed Kerry with a 3-point lead nationally and an edge in some key battleground states. Those exit poll results were leaked and became widely known through the Internet.




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