I was handed an exit poll to fill out, lol. I pretended to fill it out, but walked away with it in my hand. At the top it says “ABC/AP/CBS/CNN/Fox/NBC”. And then “Conducted by Edison Research, your answers are confidential”.
In the Bush reelection the early afternnon exit polls showed Bush losing Va... later there was some ‘mistake’ blamed.
Blatant case of vote suppression is what it was.
Preliminary or early exit polling isn’t worth spit.