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Article: Counting service abandons exit poll operation, a setback for revamped U.S. elections system
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- AP Worldstream
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- November 6, 2002
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Voter News Service abandoned its state and national exit poll plans
for Election Night, saying it could not guarantee the accuracy of
the analysis which U.S. media organizations use to help explain why
Americans voted as they did.
The decision did not affect VNS' separate operation for counting the
actual vote. VNS also hoped to have limited information from the exit
poll surveys to give its members guidance in projecting winners for
individual races.
Still, it was a major setback for VNS _ a consortium consisting of
television's ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press. VNS
had completely rebuilt its system in response to the 2000 election, ...