Will we have exit polls on election night?

[RufusEarl]

I have been told that no one plans to do exit polling this year, is this a rumor? I hope so since e-voting, not that it did any good in 04.

[LA lady]

1. Too many early voting

They would be useless since so many are voting early and absentee. Not a true picture.

[maseman]

3. There will still be exit polling

I know the company that does the research and they are gearing up for it right now. Yes there may be more absentee, but there will still be much more percentage going to vote traditionally on election day.

Now, the reporting of the exit polls are a whole other story. But they will be conducted.

[Allyoop]

5. exit polls

I'd like to hear from someone who has been involved in exit polls about the effect early voting and absentee voting have on making the election day exit polls inaccurate.

In Watauga County, NC in 2004, the local Repubs were celebrating until the tide turned at the end of the night and our Dem County Commissioners, etc. won. Absentee ballots and early voting ballots are the last to be counted, so - depending on the size of that batch of ballots, exit polls could be totally overwhelmed at the end of the day. We Dems encouraged early voting.

It has long been Repub strategy to get their people to vote absentee or early. Then they can see who has or has not voted and focus on those who haven't to get them out on election day.

I know the Repugs use all kinds of devious methods to keep Democrats from voting and I don't trust electronic voting, but how much of the misleading exits polls that indicated a Dem win in 2004 were due to those Repubs who had voted early or absentee and just weren't present on election day for the pollsters to interview?

[Kurovski]

2. Herein the following link is the answer:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x454361

[endarkenment]

4. No exit polls.

After all, they are simply the standard tool for ballot integrity verification, so obviously they should not be used in our elections. We are above all that.