Uniform Closing Time at Polls
The inability of the national broadcast media to refrain, for even a few short hours, from predicting election outcomes based on exit polling shows the contempt they have for the actual election process. Why not report the election results as news? Why rush to be first with a prediction, when the cost could well be the outcome of an important local election?
As a solution, broadcasters should voluntarily cease the practice of predicting via Election Day exit polling. Further, the secretaries of state in the East should refuse to release presidential election results until 10 p.m. EST.
JERRY BLUESTEIN
Mar Vista
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