Also: "ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and AP chose to disband "Voter News Service" -- a POOL created in 1964 to collect election results, which was broadened in the early 1990s to conduct exit polls -- following highly publicized failures in 2000 and 2002. The news organizations created the National Election Pool (NEP), and contracted with two veteran pollsters to conduct exit surveys.
They turned to the AP for the job of vote counting. In the past, the participating news organizations received raw vote numbers from both VNS and the AP, and used one as a check against the accuracy of the other. Now they will rely on AP -- the world's oldest and largest news cooperative -- alone." |