tin foil hat time

[geekchick]

I call possible shenanigans. Why are exit poll numbers changing in the middle of the night? In a state where the CEO of Diebold stated his committment to delivering those electoral votes to the Republicans?

Fsck. CNN's breaking news banner: "Sen. John Kerry calls President Bush to concede presidential election, CNN has learned. Details soon."

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[zuggy9.livejournal.com]

I personally agree. Look at all the incumbant Congressmen that just got ousted, in a year with such anti-republican sentiment.

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Why are exit poll numbers changing in the middle of the night?

According to the Washington Post's story, there was a server crash at the organization doing the polling, and they didn't get the backups up and running until 1:30 am. Here's the money paragraphs...

To compound the problem further, a server at Edison/Mitofsky malfunctioned shortly before 11 p.m. The glitch prevented access to any exit poll results until technicians got a backup system operational at 1:33 a.m. yesterday.

The crash occurred barely minutes before the consortium was to update its exit polling with the results of later interviewing that found Bush with a one-point lead. Instead, journalists were left relying on preliminary exit poll results released at 8:15 p.m., which still showed Kerry ahead by three percentage points.

It was only after the polls had closed in most states and the vote count was well underway in the East that it became clear that Bush was in a stronger position in several key battlegrounds, including Ohio, than early exit polls suggested.

[geekchick]

Yeah, well, never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory! ;) (Seriously, on reflection it seemed quite unlikely; I do find it sad though that I had absolutely no problem believing the possibility given all the other voting-related shenanigans that went on.)