UO selected to conduct `exit' poll.Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard Researchers at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. have been tapped to call voters and conduct a kind of vote-by-mail exit poll for the national media organizations. The UO's Oregon Survey Research Laboratory will call about 900 voters from now to Nov. 2 to find out how they voted. A national polling organization that replaced the defunct DEFUNCT. A term used for one that is deceased or dead. In some acts of assembly in Pennsylvania, such deceased person is called a decedent. (q.v.) Voter News Service The Voter News Service was a consortium whose mission was to provide results for United States Presidential elections, so that individual organizations and networks would not have to do exit polling and vote tallying in parallel. will analyze the numbers and predict the outcomes of national races, passing the information on to the media. Among the outlets that contracted to use the data are The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , the three major broadcast networks, Fox News and CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. . Joel Bloom, an adjunct political science professor and research associate at the survey lab, said traditional exit polling can't be done in Oregon because of vote by mail. "We can't go to polling places so we can't have exit polls," he said. "There aren't any polling places in Oregon, and most voters will have cast their votes well in advance of Election Day." To get the data, the survey lab instead will call voters. They will ask the same sets of questions that will be used in the traditional exit polls that will be carried out in other states on Election Day. Voters also will be asked about a couple of key state measures. Bloom said the contract with the polling group prevents him from naming the measures. Plans are to call 700 people listed on voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs. rolls along with 200 randomly dialed numbers. The random numbers will help make up for the voters who registered too late to show up on the lists and those who do not put their phone numbers on their registration forms. The polling is being done as a joint project of Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International Mitofsky International is a survey research company founded by Warren J. Mitofsky in 1993. Its primary business is conducting exit polls for major elections around the world. It does this work exclusively for news organizations. , two national polling powerhouses. Voter News Service previously provided exit polling data but disbanded following the 2002 election. The consortium suffered a major failure of a new computer system for tabulating exit poll data, leading to fiascoes in both the 2000 presidential race and key Senate races in 2002. |
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