2016 Postmortem

J_J_

(1,213 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:40 AM Apr 2016

Exit polls have historically and throughout the world been used as a check against election fraud

Exit polls have historically and throughout the world been used as a check against, and rough indicator of, the degree of election fraud. Some examples of this include the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004, and the Ukrainian presidential election, 2004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_poll.

If this election had taken place in Syria, the US would be saying the election was fraudulent.

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Exit polls have historically and throughout the world been used as a check against election fraud (Original Post) J_J_ Apr 2016 OP

It would be nice to know northernsouthern Apr 2016 #1

It's hard to educate people here. peace13 Apr 2016 #2

Exit polls, Buffalo and a promise to find out splat Apr 2016 #3

northernsouthern

(1,511 posts)

1. It would be nice to know

Reply to J_J_ (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:42 AM

Apr 2016

Why both AZ and NY were off by so much. It seems that the Independents are the ones that are getting knocked out, so maybe the exit polls are including them.

peace13

(11,076 posts)

2. It's hard to educate people here.

Reply to J_J_ (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:44 AM

Apr 2016

We need Jimmy Carter to get us free and fair elections as he has done around the world. They would start with a paper ballot!

splat

(2,294 posts)

3. Exit polls, Buffalo and a promise to find out

Reply to J_J_ (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:57 AM

Apr 2016

Benchmark Politics said on Twitter as the results everywhere didn't match exits, "Exit polls overweighted Buffalo," fwiw. (Hillary ended up winning Buffalo late.)

But he promised on the way to bed, "As repayment for the donations, we will do all of the next states in the next 3 days, and have an article on exits and on Buffalo's vote."

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