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Beta Site Launched
Oct. 23rd, 2008
We're happy to announce the launch of our beta site. While we're working on the functionality, you can already Get the Forms and Submit Exit Poll.
It's exciting to open up this new frontier of oversight and accountability. We feel strongly that this is an opportunity for us, real people like you and me, to keep an eye so that the electoral process, the basis of our democracy, runs as it should.
Thomas Jefferson once said "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." The least we can do is to prevent that from turning into a mob rule where forty-nine percent or less takes away the rights of the other fifty-one percent or more. It is our right and our civic duty to oversee this process.
Currently the news is rife with stories about voter fraud. Regardless of what side you root for, it is our responsibility as citizens to prevent tampering with the votes. That's why we came up with this site.
Wikipedia states that an exit poll is "a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. Unlike an opinion poll, which asks whom the voter plans to vote for or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks whom the voter actually voted for. Pollsters - usually private companies working for newspapers or broadcasters - conduct exit polls to gain an early indication as to how an election has turned out, as in many elections the actual result may take hours or even days to count." In lieu of the private companies taking small samples to extrapolate the results -- a process which often lacks transparency -- we ask responsible, volunteer real voters to take a few minutes and contribute to the LongTailPoll effort. This will allow us to gather a much larger pool of data for analysis.
All results submitted are recorded in a central database and are available for open analysis and dissection. We will not presume to issue any definitive analysis, but rather we'll let volunteers analyze it and post their results. Come back often to this blog to check analysis we feel provide more insight.
Thanks for your interest, talk to you again soon.
