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Originally Posted by octothorp

Slate and a new company called Votecastr are going to do live election-day real-time projections, based on voter turnout in swing states. That's going to make for a fun day of number-watching.

There was an interesting freakanomics podcast that had Karl Rove on talking about fixes to democracy. He said that in 2000 when the media called Florida for Gore it suppressed turnout for the rest of the election and hurt Bush's numbers in states with open polls At that time.

So there is risk in manipulating the outcome of the election based on falsely reporting or incorrectly reporting exit poll data. I don't like it from a democratic stand point