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Article: VNS Abandons National Exit Polls
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- November 6, 2002
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Voter News Service was forced to abandon state and
national exit polls designed to help analyze Tuesday's midterm election
results and also saw its vote-counting operation slow to a crawl.
The failures were a major setback for VNS _ a consortium consisting
of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the AP. VNS had completely rebuilt
its system in response to the 2000 election, when television networks
twice used its information to make wrong calls in the decisive Florida
vote for the presidency.
CBS and NBC complained that vote totals were coming in so slowly on
Election Night that they were relying on a backup operation provided
by The Associated ...