Other states
Texas, which Clinton won, has exit polls but they are not reported until an hour after polls close, plenty of time to make the adjustment. Colorado and Minnesota reported no exit polls at all. In 8 of the 9 states where we have data, the exit polls showed lower percentages for Clinton than the official counts that came out later. The margins of error should have been in the neighborhood of 3%, but in all the states except Vermont, the discrepancies were larger than this. Only in Massachusetts was the discrepancy large enough to change the winner, but proportions matter for the allocation of conventiondelegates. (These facts as reported by Ted Soares, who had his computer ready to capture exit polls from each state as they came out. The chart below also comes from Ted.)
Election Theft and the Media
Whoever writes the rules has declared that it's OK to write about disenfranchisement and Jim Crow and ID laws that keep poor and minorities from voting and private companies hired to "clean up the data" in voter registration, eliminating people of color in the process. It is fine to talk about indirect means by which the vote is tilted to the right, but it is definitely not fine to talk about vote theft blatant and direct via the computer programs that count our votes. Just in the last 14 years, computerized voting has swept the American states, and with it there have been laws and procedures assuring that the computer totals are beyond independent scrutiny or cross-checks.
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