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Article: Release of Exit Poll Data To Be Slowed in Elections
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 19, 2004
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-- The consortium of news organizations that runs the election
exit polls has voted to delay distribution of data for several hours
on future election days.
Exit poll data will not be distributed until after 4 p.m. EST to
the organizations that have paid for it: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News
Channel and the Associated Press, Sheldon Gawiser, NBC's elections
director, said Thursday.
On Nov. 2, the companies conducting the polls, Edison Media
Research and Mitofsky International, distributed the first wave of
exit poll data at 1 p.m. -- and the numbers were immediately leaked
on the Internet and to the campaigns.
Those initial numbers suggested that Sen. John F. Kerry had slight
leads in Florida ...