On Election
Defense Radio this evening, Tues. Jan. 29
8:00 -
9:00 pm
Eastern / 7:00 - 8:00 pm Central / 5:00 - 6:00 pm Pacific
Jonathan
Simon and Steven Freeman will be discussing exit polling
as a tool to assess the validity of purported electronic election
results.
To "tune in" via the Internet, go to http://www.toginet.com
and click on either of the two Audio Players (Flash or Windows Media)
you will see in the upper right corner.
Co-hosts
Andi Novick and Dan Ashby will be asking the experts to explain what
"raw" "weighted" and "adjusted" exit polls mean,
how "stratification" is used to draw demogragraphic portraits,
and
how "intrinsic yardsticks" such as presidential approval ratings and
prior year election results can tell us whether an exit polling sample is valid or biased in one
direction or another.
Call in with your questions too, at 877- 864 - 4869
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We'll also be asking why the 40-year tradition of exit polls with
predictive accuracy to within 1% has seemingly gone awry of late,
but only in the U.S. and only since the mass transition to computerized
voting.
Finally,
and most importantly, we will ask, can citizens carry out
independent exit polls (or develop alternative methods) to assess
for ourselves the truthfulness of "official" election results reported by proprietary voting machines
that keep the raw vote data secret,
and "official" exit poll results reported by a big media consortium
that keeps the raw polling data secret.
To "tune
in" via the Internet, go to http://www.toginet.com
and click on either of the two Audio Players (Flash or Windows Media)
you will see in the upper right corner.
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