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Article: News organizations disband Voter News Service
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2003
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News organizations disband Voter News Service
Associated Press
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
New York -- Six major news organizations announced Monday that
they are disbanding Voter News Service, the consortium they had built
to count votes and conduct surveys on election day.
The decision follows two major election-night failures in a row by
VNS, which was formed in 1993 with the merger of separate companies
that counted votes and conducted exit polls.
Given the expense of mounting such operations on their own, ABC,
CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and The Associated Press said they
were considering other options for sharing vote counts and exit poll
surveys.
But it will no longer be VNS, an ...