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Article: US Voter News Service drops exit poll plans
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 6, 2002
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US Voter News Service drops exit poll plans
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- United States Voter News Service
(VNS) announced on Tuesday it had canceled its planned state and
national election night exit polls, saying it could not guarantee
the accuracy of the analysis of the midterm elections.
VNS said in a statement it was not satisfied with the system that
would have been used to analyze Tuesday's exit poll and would not
publish the results of state and nation wide surveys of voter
attitudes.
VNS, a consortium of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and The Associated
Press, counts actual votes and also conducts exit polling in certain
precincts. The data is used by its members to project ...