The EXIT POLL tomorrow

[IChing]

Since they do not use Diebold or electronic voting machines in Connecticut
I will be curious on the results of the exit poll and the actual count.

It could be also revealing if there is not a statistical abnormality
in the differences of the poll and the actual count then another
correlation might be inferred in the 2000 and 2004 national election
where there was such a discrepancy that this might be brought
to the national attention of Americans.

Anyway, Go Ned.

[David Dunham]

1. It will show Lieberman 53% Lamont 47%.

[IChing]

4. And the exit poll will show what? Lieberman 47% Lamont 53%?

I am only saying is to watch the exit polls

[ruggerson]

12. is that your mantra for the next 24 hours?

[Grown2Hate]

2. I feel a little ignorant... the primary is tomorrow, correct?

I know elections are typically on Tuesdays, but I don't know much about primaries. Also, for some reason I thought it was today. In either case, GO NED!!!

[Wilms]

3. It'll be Diebold Optical Scan...with no auditing.

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Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz announced today that she has entered into a $15 million contract with LHS Associates of Methuen, Mass. At the announcement on Friday, Bysiewicz studiously avoided naming Diebold, LHS supplies only Diebold equipment so it is clear that Diebold’s equipment will be used. Just a week ago the Secretary of State had declined to give any details of the technology being conidered, telling the New Britain Herald "I'd love to tell you about the technology, but we're still sorting out the details." Bysiewicz also noted that local registrars of voters will have the choice of using the machines in the November election or the 2007 election.

Bysiewicz said her office decided against purchasing touch screen voting machines after hearing concerns from thousands of citizens, academics and advocacy groups about problems with the devices. "Touch-screen technology, in its current state of development, is simply not ready for 'prime time' here in Connecticut," she said.

Election activist were quick to notice that the choice of a paper ballot optical scan voting system was not anticipated when the state's election reform legislation S.B.55; Public Act 05-188; was signed into law on July 1, 2005. The law required that "not later than five business days after each election in which a direct recording electronic voting machine is used, the registrars of voters or their designees, representing at least two political parties, shall conduct a manual audit of the votes recorded on at least two direct recording electronic voting machines used in each assembly district." Optical scanners, of course, are not direct recording electronic voting machines. The possibility of a special session of the state legislature may offer the opportunity to address the audit issue. Otherwise it may have to wait until January.

The decision to purchase a paper ballot optical scan voting system represents a remarkable development in the Secretary of State’s thinking about voting technology since 2003, when she seemed determined to implement a statewide paperless touchscreen voting system. After working with the state’s Senior Senator Chris Dodd to defeat a voter verified paper record bill in the state legislature in 2004, she eventually came to embrace the need for independent verification when an even stronger bill passed the legislature unanimously last year.

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http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1634&Itemid=113

[DODI]

5. Not tomorrow -- the new machines won't be available until Nov.

and even then, not in all of the state.

[IChing]

6. That's what remember reading so this why I thought

it is something to seriously look at tomorrow would be the exit poll

[Wilms]

13. Thanks, Dodi. n/t

[Awsi Dooger]

7. Who says there will be an exit poll?

That's very rare for a primary, especially on a large scale.

[IChing]

8. Dodi, the poster here might know

Dodi?

[applegrove]

9. Some of us believe that the exit polls are in and of themselves the

problem. That they keep people from voting (1)Oh - we've won - I don't need to vote, 2)Oh - we have to redouble efforts to vote cause we lost... since exit polls more than inevitably favour the Dems... which makes 1) Dems and 2) Repukes). And this pattern takes place in all places... in elections Rove is involved with... irrigardless of diebold or machines.

So I'm not happy to hear of exit polls. Taking place. ANYWHERE!

[Der Blaue Engel]

10. Republicans hate them too n/t

[applegrove]

16. Neocon operatives in Canada try very hard to make it legal for exit

polls to be released early. They have gone to court many a time. Cause Canada has strict laws on that front. Nobody is allowed to post results of exit polls or do news stories on the polls..till the polls are closed in that time zone.

Hopefully your press has learnt its lesson and I think they have. Quite frankly..I believe "reluctant responder" is a euphamism for lying liar GOPs.

[Grown2Hate]

11. Exit polls are VERY useful, but should only be released AFTER the...

...election is over. I think that would stem the problems you're referring to and still add validity to the election (or expose possible discrepancies).

[w4rma]

14. No. Bad. The proper thing to do is not to release results until voting is

over.

[applegrove]

17. I agree with you whole-heartedly. Exit polls should not be released

till after the polls have closed in an area. And there should be a black-out by timezone.

[tritsofme]

15. I doubt a news organization would pay for an exit poll

Very few people will be voting in the Democratic primary and the results will come in pretty quickly.