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January 29, 2008 at 10:07:40

Simon & Freeman: The Future of Exit Polling. TUES 29th 8:00pm EST / 5:00pm PST. Election Defense Radio

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On Election Defense Radio this evening, Tues. Jan. 29, at 8:00 - 9:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 - 6:00 pm Pacific,

Jonathan Simon and Steven Freeman will be discussing exit polling as a tool to assess the validity of purported electronic election results.

To "tune in" via the Internet, go to http://www.toginet.com and click on either of the two Audio Players (Flash or Windows Media) you will see in the upper right corner.

Co-hosts Andi Novick and Dan Ashby will be asking the experts to explain what "raw" "weighted" and "adjusted" exit polls mean,

how "stratification" is used to draw demogragraphic portraits, and how "intrinsic yardsticks" such as presidential approval ratings and prior year election results

can tell us whether an exit polling sample is valid or biased in one direction or another.

Call in with your questions too, at 877- 864 - 4869

We'll also be asking why the 40-year tradition of exit polls with predictive accuracy to within 1% has seemingly gone awry of late,

but only in the U.S. and only since the mass transition to computerized voting.

Finally, and most importantly, we will ask, can citizens carry out independent exit polls (or develop alternative methods) to assess for ourselves the truthfulness

of "official" election results reported by proprietary voting machines that keep the raw vote data secret,

and "official" exit poll results reported by a big media consortium that keeps the raw polling data secret?

To "tune in" via the Internet, go to http://www.toginet.com and click on either of the two Audio Players (Flash or Windows Media) you will see in the upper right corner.

On related wavelengths:

§ Download last week's show on Citzen Exit Polls by going to the EDA Radio page ( http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/election_defense_radio ).

§ Read more about procedures for citizen-conducted election verification exit polls: http://www.electionintegrity.org/activists/Do_Your_Own_Exit_Poll.shtml

written by Election Integrity Director Steven Freeman and polling expert Ken Warren, president of The Warren Poll.

Election Defense Radio is streamed live on Tuesdays at http://toginet.com from 8 to 9 pm Eastern, 7 to 8 Central, and 5 to 6 Pacific.

Shows are replayed on Sundays 1 - 2 pm Eastern at the same location on your Internet dial (recorded, no call-ins)

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1 comments

Buddha said that there are no beings to liberate, thus all beings are liberated. In the mean time while trying to realize this in daily life, I'm against the two-party dictaotrship and friendly fascism of the ruling plutocrats and their corporations. I agree with George Carlin who said, "The owners of this country know the truth: its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Gregory WonderwheelBuddha said that there are no beings to liberate, thus all beings are liberated. In the mean time while trying to realize this in daily life, I'm against the two-party dictaotrship and friendly fascism of the ruling plutocrats and their corporations. I agree with George Carlin who said, "The owners of this country know the truth: its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

Failur is due to not doing it correctly.

Once upon a time the major news media did their own polling and were in competition to be both accurete and first. Nowadays I beleive they pool thier resources and use a consortium that belongs to no one media. So much for the free market theory of news. With a monopoly the consumer aways loses.

by Gregory Wonderwheel (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 99 comments) on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 2:57:25 PM