Reply #85: You didn't answer my question...

[IStriker]

I would not be asking a question if I knew the answer. It was NOT a rhetorical question. Is Jazzywhatever correct in what she says about the reason exit polls are done???? Or are they done for some other reason? I have no expertise in exit polling or fraudulent elections and have never done any delving into the subjects because until I joined DU I never heard about Democrats losing elections due to fraud. I still don't hear a peep about it anywhere else (not TV news, not newspapers, not my neighbors, etc.) I remember reading in my local newspaper (AP probably) that there was great surprise about how the Venezuelan recall election came out since polling up until the election and the exit polling had shown that Chavez was likely to lose by a lot. I also remember hearing on CNN that there was no problem with exit polling while it was done by Voter News Service (30+ yrs?), but the new group doing the polling had come up with results that the networks did not use because they were suspicious of it from in front which proved to be correct once the actual votes were known.