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	Voter News Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A possibly unwritten secondary mission of the Voter News Service was to provide election results as quickly as possible on election night—a point which came to haunt the VNS in the 2000 Presidential election.
		Voter News Service, and is alleged to have had contact with both Jeb and George Bush several times by telephone the evening of the 2000 Presidential election.
		In January 2003, the Voter News Service was disbanded largely because of failures in 2000 and 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voter_News_Service (424 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Report cites exit polling problems
		NEW YORK -- Two firms that conducted Election Day exit polls for major news organizations reported yesterday that they found a number of problems with the way the polls were carried out last year, resulting in estimates that overstated Senator John F. Kerry's share of the presidential vote.
		The news organizations -- ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News, and the Associated Press -- formed the consortium to get exit polling data for the 2004 election after a previous group, the Voter News Service, was disbanded.
		In November 2000, flawed information from Voter News Service twice led television networks to incorrectly declare a winner in the presidential race in Florida, the state that proved to be key to the outcome.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/01/20/report_cites_exit_polling_problems (495 words)

	Voices: Voter News Service: R.I.P.
		The ten-year-old Voter News Service died because in 2000 its faulty data caused the networks to call the Bush-Gore election wrong twice in one night, and in 2002 VNS's expensive new computer software and delivery system, installed to correct the earlier debacle, failed altogether.
		Testifying as the new president of NBC News before a hostile Senate committee in August 1984, I pointed out that in the twenty years that NBC News had been projecting the outcome of presidential elections in every state, it had never been wrong.
		As one news executive said, "that puts a strain on our election desk to be first to make a call, not last." After the embarrassment of the last two times out, however, the hope is that restraint will be shown.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2003/2/voices-grossman.asp (1146 words)

	VoterNewsService (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Voter News Service (VNS) is a top-secret private consortium owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News.
		The name "Voter News Service" was created in 1993, and new members have come on board over the years.
		Lynn Landes is the publisher of EcoTalk.org and a news reporter for DUTV in Philadelphia, PA.
	www.ecotalk.org /VoterNewsService.htm (856 words)

	Vote-Counting Service Disbanded - CBS News
		Voter News Service formed in 1993, merging separate companies that counted votes and conducted exit polls.
		The news organizations are considering entrusting the election night vote count to the AP, which has long conducted its own vote count separate from VNS, the network source said.
		Time is of the essence for the news organizations, with the 2004 presidential primaries beginning in a year.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/01/13/politics/main536261.shtml (547 words)

	Voter News Service Is in Danger of Dissolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The major television news networks and The Associated Press are seriously considering dissolving their decadelong partnership in the Voter News Service, the Election Day polling organization that was at the heart of the problems they had in reporting the results of the last two national elections, network executives close to the discussions said.
		The various services before the Voter News Service was formed worked as a loose verification system in which the erroneous information of one could be noticed because of the accurate findings of the others.
		The Voter News Service is also trying to determine how to proceed with the contractor that is building the system, the Battelle Memorial Institute, which is still owed more than $2 million.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/813951/posts (2521 words)

	USATODAY.com - Voter News Service kept intact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		NEW YORK (AP) — The members of Voter News Service, an elections consortium whose data was used by several news organizations in making wrong calls in last year's presidential election, have decided to keep the organization together and revamp its operations.
		The six member news organizations ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press —; had given themselves a June 1 deadline to decide whether to remain in the cooperative or to opt out, members of the organization said.
		The news organizations later said Florida was too close to call, but early the next day five VNS members declared Bush the winner in Florida and nationwide.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-05-31-voter.htm (363 words)

	American Antitrust Institute - Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Under the recently issued federal Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors, the legality of the Voter News Service essentially would be judged under the rule of reason, an analysis that considered all of its benefits and costs.
		The Voter News Service might point out that in 1945 the Supreme Court held that it was legal for dozens of newspapers to help form and participate in the Associated Press.
		The Voter News Service fiasco makes us wonder whether things have gotten to the point where a mistake or bias will not be corrected by the normal give and take of competition among media firms.
	www.antitrustinstitute.org /recent/93.cfm (930 words)

	Suspicion Surrounds Voter News Service
		VNS is owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News.
		After all, the major news networks have claimed that they've been processing election data and using computers and thousands of temporary employees since the mid-1960's.
		Whatever the reason, it doesn't mean an end to the mystery and suspicion that surrounds Voter News Service.
	www.rense.com /general33/suspicionsurroundsVNS.htm (659 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The millionaire publisher attracted the support of 26 percent of Republicans who identified themselves as part of the Christian conservative movement, according to Voter News Service polling.
		Bush also did best with the poorest and richest Republican voters, collecting 42 percent of the vote from those with household incomes of less than $30,000 and 55 percent of the vote from those with incomes above $75,000.
		Voter News Service, the polling organization, is a cooperative effort of The Associated Press, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC.
	www.dmregister.com /news/stories/c4789004/10273424.html (595 words)

	2002 VNS National Exit Poll Description
		Each voter in a state had the same chance to have his or her precinct selected.
		Second, within each precinct, voters were sampled systematically throughout the voting day at a rate that gives all voters in a precinct the same chance of being interviewed.
		There is also an adjustment for voters who were missed or refused to be interviewed, which is based on their observed age, race and sex.
	www.ropercenter.uconn.edu /usvns2002_2.html (863 words)

	Voter News Service: What Went Wrong?
		Unfinished and mismanaged efforts to update the computer systems used by Voter News Service forced executives at the consortium's owners—ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC and the Associated Press—to abandon the use of exit polling data before it even got all collected.
		News organizations and other VNS subscribers were repeatedly instructed to log off their machines, so the new servers running BEA Systems' WebLogic application server could be rebooted.
		If a network analyst wanted to know how independent voters in a particularly county were voting compared to the 1996 or 2000 election, the system couldn't deliver the data quickly, if at all.
	www.baselinemag.com /print_article/0,3668,a=35729,00.asp (1553 words)

	Election2002: Voter News Service abandons exit poll plans
		NEW YORK -- Voter News Service abandoned its state and national exit poll plans for election night, saying it could not guarantee the accuracy of the analysis that media organizations use to help explain why people voted as they did.
		Two years after George W. Bush's court-decided election, politicians and journalists hungry for their first chance to sample the voters' mood in the wake of Sept. 11, a limping economy and murmurs of war -- had to wait.
		The VNS exit poll was of particular importance to broadcasters and 19 newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today, that had contracted with the consortium to receive that information to report on Election Day trends.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/11/06/news_pf/Election2002/Voter_News_Service_ab.shtml (669 words)

	Network America, center for Vote Fraud Investigation, fair and honest elections, and the Pro-Life Precinct Project VNS ...
		The TV Networks have admitted they all get their exit polls from Voter News Service in numerous articles and TV spots aired around election day, November 2000.
		You will notice that the box has Voter News Service on top, but then shows the logos of ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, and NBC, indicating that Voter News Service is working for All four Big TV networks and the wire service which keeps the world's newspapers informed.
		We also have a picture of a badge worn by a Voter News Service worker on election night 1988 which was snapped at one of the regional center phone banks in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	www.networkamerica.org /vns_box_comment.htm (1178 words)

	Network America News
		News reminder: The overwhelming number of Big Media polls until the last week or so told everyone that G.W. Bush had 60% to 70% of support in the Iowa GOP.
		I submit the counter (probably Voter News Service) stops short of reporting 100% of the count in order to be able to backtrack if anyone catches their messing with the numbers.
		ABC national Radio News projected Bush in the GOP Iowa Caucus, and Gore in the Democratic side of the contest at 7 PM, Central Standard Time, just as the Caucuses were beginning, and clearly before even one vote was cast.
	www.votefraud.org /News/2000/1/012500.html (2425 words)

	American Antitrust Institute - Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although there is still some small room for interpretation on the margin of the results and predictions made by the Voter News Service, all six rely on the same data and the same models.
		When the principal news organizations move in lock-step, based on the same methodology and the same polling of the same samples, no single organization takes the risk of being wrong.
		The Voter News Service fiasco makes us wonder whether things have already arrived at the point where a mistake or bias will not be corrected by the normal give and take of competition among media firms.
	www.antitrustinstitute.org /recent/90.cfm (1207 words)

	Augsburg College - Augsburg College News
		In Augsburg's Voter Awareness Project '96, students and faculty are working together to get out the vote, spark discussion on key issues and races, watch televised debates together, and use a computer program and a variety of news sources on election night to project race results.
		One of the leaders in planning the Augsburg Voter Awareness Project is Robert Clyde, one of the college's institutional researchers and also the Minnesota manager for the Voter News Service, a joint project of the Associated Press, CNN and the news divisions of ABC, CBS and NBC.
		The Voter News Service tabulates and reports unofficial election-night results and conducts the well-know "exit polls" and reports their results.
	www.augsburg.edu /news/news-archives/1996/voter.html (538 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: news
		Central to the probe, he said, is the role of the Voter News Service, a consortium of the networks and the AP that uses voter exit polls and actual results to help make election projections.
		Tauzin said a depressed voter turnout in the West may have had an impact on the House races in California that Republicans lost and on the national popular presidential vote that went for Gore.
		Tauzin said the investigation may determine that "a new agreement" on use of this data is necessary, but he said there would be no effort to restrict its use with federal legislation.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=5884 (745 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Voter News Service scraps exit polling
		Its new computerized systems fraught with bugs and problems, the consortium Voter New Service has decided to scrap its exit polling work, saying it could not guarantee its reliability.
		The service had completely rebuilt its system in response to problems encountered during the 2000 election, when television networks twice used its erroneous projections to call a winner in the controversial Florida presidential race two years ago.
		In 1985, major networks and newswires signed an agreement to end the practice of using voter exit polls to call races early until all polling stations in a state are closed.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29555 (492 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > Black Voter Registration Breaking Records
		New voters are swelling the rolls and threatening to upset the assumptions of corporate pundits and polling organizations.
		Although Republicans are vigorously signing up white voters in the suburbs and exurbs, it appears the GOP is being out-organized by Democrat-led drives in Black and Brown precincts across the nation.
		The surge of new Black and Brown voters is encouraging news, and we are all anxious to see if John Kerry can dance on top of the very narrow table he has jumped on, during the debates.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=23224a104437401c9c4a4fdc8f0c0b15 (1509 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Voter News Service Meltdown Halts Flow of Exit Poll Data
		The polling service that humiliated the television networks on Election Day two years ago suffered a meltdown yesterday, depriving news organizations of the crucial data used to project winners and analyze voting patterns.
		Voter News Service, a consortium of the major networks and the Associated Press, pulled the plug on its exit polls after concluding that its computer analysis could not be trusted.
		Two years ago, a VNS investigation found that the group had underestimated by half the number of absentee ballots in Florida and had dramatically underestimated the number of votes still uncounted at 2 a.m.
	members.cox.net /fweil/WP021106.htm (693 words)

	Networks pull plug on Voter News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Voter News Service has been put out of its misery.
		The five networks and one news service that once relied on VNS to fuel their often dramatic predictions and final calls on election night announced yesterday they had disbanded the service.
		In a statement, VNS board members said they "are collectively reviewing a number of strong options for how to provide the tabulation of the national vote count as well as state and national exit polls for the 2004 election.
	www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_011403_general.html (434 words)

	MSN Tech & Gadgets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Online news services Inside.com and Evote.com posted early exit poll results Tuesday afternoon, breaking ranks with traditional media that have promised to withhold the information until all polls across the country close.
		Exit polls are questionnaires developed by Voter News Service, a consortium of the TV networks, cable news channels and the Associated Press.
		Among the questions that appear is "Who did you vote for?" Based on the answers, the news service tries to predict a winner.
	msn-cnet.com.com /2100-1023-248276.html (525 words)

	CNN.com - VNS cites problems with exit polls - Nov. 5, 2002
		Voter News Service, a vote-counting group used by major news organizations, cited dissatisfaction with its exit poll analysis Tuesday and said it would not release any "national surveys of voter attitudes" on election night.
		CNN, the other TV news networks and The Associated Press will rely more heavily on returns from state election officials and their own analyses of VNS sample precincts.
		VNS said the data it was collecting from exit polls was "not being properly analyzed by the organization's new computer system" developed after the 2000 election debacle when various news organizations projected Democrat Al Gore the winner, then retreated from that statement.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/elec02.exit.polls/index.html (477 words)

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