Article: Networks To Dissolve Exit Poll Service; Replacement Sought For Election Surveys

The major television networks and the Associated Press decided yesterday to dissolve the Voter News Service exit poll consortium but have not reached agreement on a replacement plan to survey voters on Election Day.

VNS employees were told at a morning meeting at their headquarters in Brooklyn that they had been laid off immediately and the service had been disbanded. The consortium has stumbled in the past two national elections, with the networks calling the 2000 election for George W. Bush only to have to retract it later that night. Last year the VNS computer crashed on election night, leaving news organizations without exit polls.

During yesterday's brief but stormy session, Murray ...

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