An Election Verification Exit Poll
To protect the vote count, we must have an independent way to assess the will of the voters. For this reason, the Vote Count Protection Project includes an Election Verification Exit Poll.
In selected precincts, we will interview a representative sample of voters to determine their choices of candidates. The raw data, precinct by precinct, will be publicly posted. This transparency will allow statisticians of every political stripe to perform independent analyses. Note that media-sponsored exit polls, such as the 2004 US Presidential exit poll, do not make their raw data available in this way, and are not Election Verification Exit Polls.
A pilot version of the Election Verification Exit Poll will be up and running in November 2006; we will be in full swing by 2008, independently measuring the votes in the 2008 Presidential election.
Read the Election Verification Exit Poll plan details (PDF, 104Kb).
Here are instructions for doing your own election verification exit poll (PDF Version, 64Kb).
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