Boston Area Colleges Election Project

Rebuts Wrights 1990 Legislative Quarterly Article. Wright's study does not explain why respondents overreport only their Senate vote and not presidential or House votes.

Investigates the reason for the difference between the exit poll estimates and the actual vote count in the 2004 Presidential election.

Discusses the Utah Colleges Exit Poll. Is a good overview of a student run exit poll, its history, and uses. Also reviews exit polling in general, providing a list of key terms.

To be accurate, exit polls need to be conducted throughout election day. Different groups vote at different times of day.

There have been concerns that racial gerrymandering to benefit minorities would lead to racial polarization.

Giving voters secret ballots in exit-polling leads to higher response rates and more accurate results than doing face-to-face interviews

Overreporting in the NES has gotten progressively worse as a result of the sample being over saturated with self-reported voters

Regardless of whether an exit poll project is successful (i.e.

Black candidates David Dinkins and Douglas Wilder did better in the polls than in the actual returns in the 1989 elections, similar to Tom Bradley's experience in the California race for governor in 1

From abstract: "Misreport is a serious problem because inaccurate data may lead to erroneous substantive conclusions.