If people are manipulated weather to vote or not by exit polls, the "Problem" is not the exit polls. It is people who do not plan to vote regardless of what other people are doing or saying.
Instead of bitching about exit polls being used to manipulate people, bitch about people who are stupid enough to be manipulated.
Instead of bitching about exit polls, celebrate that people are free to participate in them if they choose to.
Instead of bitching about exit polls, celebrate that people are free to talk with voters.
Instead of bitching about exit polls, celebrate that people are free to share or publish their opinions about their exit poll data.
Those of you who disagree with voters being manipulated, do not see that those being manipulated are willing to be manipulated. If someone is not going to vote because of poll results in one race, when there are many item on the ballot, that someone is a fool.
Because some folks are fools, the problem is not exit polls, or people trying to take advantage of their foolishness, the problem is the fool. Educate the fool, do not try to restrict the freedoms of those who take advantage of the fool. Not because I like seeing the fools played, but because restricting freedoms is to great a price to pay.
Nowhere, but nowhere does the article state that such "restrictions of freedoms" are planned, proposed, or going to occur. As I said before, if you want to talk to exit pollsters feel free, knock yourself out. But you might also want to keep in mind who's paying for the poll info, what they HOPE it says and what they'll do to use it to their best advantage.
Prairie