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...Voter News Service (VNS), a consortium of the five major news networks and the Associated Press, provides the exit polling data. On election days, it relies upon 40,000 poll-takers at key precincts throughout the country to paint a composite portrait of the nation's voting...
...Myth of the Apathetic Non-Voter...
...Voter turnout in presidential elections has fallen from 63 percent in 1960 to less the 50 percent in 1996. Although these statistics are often cited as proof of voter apathy, many non-voters in Boston yesterday said they had reasons for not voting...
Surprisingly, according to exit polling conducted by Voter News Service, the tax cut plan had significant support among those describing themselves as liberals, despite the Democratic Party's opposition. Four of 10 liberal voters cast "yes" votes on Question...
First of all, this may demonstrate, in a way Joel Klein could only dream about, the danger of monopoly. The networks are now for the most part relying on a single source for their exit polling information - the Voter News Service. The VNS quizzes people exiting polling stations in thousands of (hopefully) representative precincts nationwide, asking them a series of demographic and attitudinal questions that in theory give us a complete snapshot of the Mind of the American Voter. The service is blisteringly fast, churning out state and national results in three waves as the voting day progresses...