My thoughts on "election fraud." [View All]

I have come to a conclusion after reading a few articles and going through some of the basics in the exit polling discrepancies. I learned that exit polling is working to be suppressed and as private as possible from preasure over controversies such as the 2000, 2002 and 2004 exit polling attempts. The NEP(National Election Pool- organization of media outlets that conduct exit polling while referring to Edison/Mitofsky) did not release exit polling data in this last election -although they were done. Voter News Service was replaced with a lot of preasure in 2003(by NEP, practically same thing) because of their failure to make any projections in 2002 as they attempted to turn to computers to project the outcome.

The NEP then failed to match the election results in 2004, causing more controversy and putting more preasure on organizations to pretty much stop exit polling. The NEP was forbidden in 2005 to leak election results and call early results before the ballots came in. It sounds that because the exit polling is beginning to differ drastically from the official results in elections, that people will lose faith in our process -which is a threat to our democracy for people will stop voting. 2005 was the first election year where the LA Times did not conduct a national exit poll.

If this is correct, then it will be safe to say that no exit polls will be held in 2006 and the fear of getting projections wrong will determine whether results will ever be challenged again. I recently saw the response to Edison Mitofsky by USCountVotes.org, and their research has shown that discrepancies in exit polling were 5 to 10 times greater in preceincts not using paper ballots(optical scan, mechanicalvoting machine, touch screen and punch card; touch screen had the highest WPE-Within Precinct Error).

I guess most of you guys have already come to these conclusions, but it seems to me that the Democrats should be jumping all over the fact that 2004 was the first Presidential election to be so far off the exit polling. It's sad that we monitor elections in 3rd world countries using exit polling. If we had used those standards over here, Kerry would have won with 5 million votes(which I understand most of us beleived happened anyways).

here's the analysis that responded to the mitofsky disclaimer. Ya'll already heard about this?

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdf