Reply #26: I think Mystery Pollster does source it [View All]

follow the links he cites on:

http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/12/what_about_thos.html

he cites this, for example:

http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/lf/lfd08e.htm

"...their reliability can be questionable. One might think that there is no reason why voters in stable democracies should conceal or lie about how they have voted, especially because nobody is under any obligation to answer in an exit poll. But in practice they often do. The majority of exit polls carried out in European countries over the past years have been failures."

(ACE Project is a joint venture of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA))

he also quotes from the email of Dr. Dieter Roth of FG Wahlen, who conduct German exit polls, who says:

"I know that Warren Mitofsky's job is much harder than ours, because of the electoral system and the more complicated structure in the states."