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Article: Networks To Dissolve Exit Poll Service; Replacement Sought For Election Surveys
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- The Washington Post
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- January 14, 2003
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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 ...