AP: Media Group Wins Exit Poll Injunction (Nevada)

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Media Group Wins Exit Poll Injunction

By RYAN NAKASHIMA
The Associated Press
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; 10:04 PM

LAS VEGAS -- A federal judge on Tuesday barred enforcement of a law that
prohibited exit poll workers from coming within 100 feet of polling places
in Nevada, ruling that such surveys do not infringe on the rights of voters.

Judge Philip Pro's decision in favor of The Associated Press and five television
networks was the 10th to side with news organizations since challenges to
such laws began in the early '90s, an attorney said. Last week, a federal judge
in Florida struck down similar 100-foot barrier rule, and an Ohio judge overruled
a similar law in that state last month.

The state's lawyers could not prove that allowing exit poll workers within that
zone infringed on the rights of voters to cast ballots, Pro said.

The AP and a media consortium including ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC
challenged the law because the group has conducted joint exit polls for numerous
elections, using the results to project winners in key races and to analyze
political and social trends.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101121.html

[Up2Late]

1. Oh Brother, if anyone ever needed any proof that the ReThugs were...

...planning to try to steal more elections, they need look no further than this effort to eliminate the Exit Polls (i.e. the last and best proof of a Stolen or Fair Election).