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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Congress considering changes to Daylight Savings
Message-ID: <2276@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 11:22:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 11:22:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 05:34:22 EST
References: <7708@reed.UUCP> <1987Nov13.213920.14998@sq.uucp> <9400@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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Snoopy (snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com) writes:
|In article <1987Nov13.213920.14998@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
|> What *I* want to know is why the people operating the polls can't simply
|> be required to keep the counts confidential until the last poll has closed
|> in the last time zone.
|...
|The obvious solution is just what you suggest, to have all polls keep
|results confidential until the last poll closes.  So the critters have
|to wait a few hours, not a bad tradeoff to get a fair election.

That doesn't solve the problem.  Much of the network's information is from exit
polls.  They stand outside of polling places and ask voters who they voted for
as they leave.

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