Article: VNS Abandons National Exit Polls

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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 ...

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