Posted on 11/01/2004 11:39:59 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry
NEW YORK - News organizations will be relying on The Associated Press for a quick and accurate count of votes cast in Tuesday's elections, from top of the ticket races like president, Senate and governor, down through state legislature.
The AP will use a network of nearly 5,000 stringers, who will be stationed at county election centers in every state. They will phone in results to one of several vote entry centers, where clerks will enter the numbers into AP's computerized tabulation system.
Those returns, from about 6,000 races in all, will then be delivered to newspapers, Web sites and broadcasters, including the television networks, in a variety of formats.
In recent elections, AP was one of two organizations collecting the vote nationwide. The other was Voter News Service, a consortium of AP and five television networks which also conducted exit polls. VNS was disbanded after it ran into problems in 2000 and 2002, and the networks turned to AP for vote counting, while hiring two veteran pollsters to conduct the exit polls.
AP's system has been enhanced this year with numerous safeguards to ensure a smooth and accurate operation.
"We've added more redundancy and quality control to an already well-established vote tallying operation," said John Reid, AP's senior vice president for Services & Technology. "For instance, AP's systems contain voting patterns from past elections, and if a number is outside of those parameters it's double-checked for accuracy."
Because a large number of voters are expected to cast absentee or provisional ballots, election officials may not finish tabulating their votes until several days after Nov. 2. AP will keep its system up and running as long as significant new totals are being reported.
AP, the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organization, has been counting the vote since its founding in 1848, when Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Democrat Lewis Cass.
AP provides content to more than 15,000 news outlets with a daily reach of 1 billion people around the world. Its multimedia services are distributed by satellite and the Internet to more than 120 nations.
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Is anyone listening to Rush exposing how the polls are being skewed by the asignment of 90% of undicided to Kerry?
Is anyone listening to Rush exposing how the polls are being skewed by the asignment of 90% of undicided to Kerry?
The hen is at the fox house.
Now isn't THAT special?
Those internals he was reading on the See-BS/NYT poll suggest that Kerry's gonna get BUSH-Whacked tomorrow! He damn well best!
I think Florida tabulates all ballots as they are received. There should be no delay on election night waiting for final Florida totals.
My personal bet is that florida will mirror the nation. The vote spread in Florida will be within one percentage point of the nation. The Difference between polls and results in Florida will mirror the polling error in the nation.
REMEMBER THE MEDIA IN 2000! IGNORE THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA, AP! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY ON NOV. 2ND!!!
REMEMBER THE MEDIA IN 2000! IGNORE THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA, AP! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY ON NOV. 2ND!!!
REMEMBER THE MEDIA IN 2000! IGNORE THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA, AP! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY ON NOV. 2ND!!!
REMEMBER THE MEDIA IN 2000! IGNORE THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA, AP! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY ON NOV. 2ND!!!
I expect false initial vote counts from AP. When the real numbers are compiled, the false ones will be used as 'evidence' in the lawsuits and conspiracy theories.
Why do I get the visual image of LBJ's Senate campaign driving a ballot box all over southern Texas refusing to turn over the contents?
It is very true, the pollsters adjust their numbers as they deem fit. The poll results are highly suspect, except for one thing - the amount of left wing bias in the poll results probably mirrors the amount of fraud that will perpetrated by the democrats, so there is some "accidental" accuracy there I suspect.
How does a Kerry rump-swab like AP get to be the only official vote reporter??
EWU in Spokane, WA Will Be AP Hub for Election Returns
Associated Press/The Spokesman-Review | 10-27-2004 | Unknown
Posted on 10/27/2004 9:14:35 AM PDT by lilylangtree
The Associated Press will collect and report election returns from 22 states, including eight presidential battleground states, at its Western Election Center in Cheney, WA next Tuesday night.
This marks the third consecutive election in which AP has operated the center from the Eastern Washingtion University campus.
"In 2000 and 2002, the election setup at Eastern Washington University worked so well, it was a no-brainer to come back again," said Ann Joyce, director of the AP Data Center in Spokane. The date center collects and reports election returns and high school sports scores from across the country.
They don't have to be. We freepers can check on our own states and report in to FR.
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