Exit Polling?

[Dave Gray]

Or, maybe it would stop the media from calling elections before they are over, and attempting to influence people who might not have voted yet?

I believe it's against the law for them to release the results of the exit poll numbers until the polls close.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I believe it's against the law for them to release the results of the exit poll numbers until the polls close.

IIRC, it was done as an agreement.  Congress was threatening to pass a law banning all releasing of exit polling data until the last poll closed in the last state.  Networks were threating to defy and fight in on 1st amendment grounds.  The three networks agreed to the current plan to avoid the fights and b/c the current system maximizes viewership as folks watch each state close. 

[CF DolFan]

http://www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com/forums/index.php?topic=12611.30

I'm glad I missed that one!!  I read through a couple of pages of the standard know- it- all BS and didn't see the court ruling ... nor do I care to comtinue to look.  The Supreme Court of the United States ruled " The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States," .  People  can argue until their fingers fall of but it doesn't change the facts.  

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Because its no one's business at the polls who I or anyone else voted for.

Sarah agrees.

Palin refused to say if she had voted to re-elect Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted last week of seven felony corruption charges.

“I am also exercising my right to privacy, and I don't have to tell anybody who I vote for, nobody does, and that’s really cool about America also,” she said.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Phishfan]

I heard McCain is such a maverick and works so well across party lines that he voted for Obama. 

[CF DolFan]

I heard McCain is such a maverick and works so well across party lines that he voted for Obama. 

That was a SNL joke!! 

[Dphins4me]

Ironically you have no "Constitutional" right to vote for even the president of the United States. The Constitution never explicitly ensures the right to vote as was ruled on by the Supreme Court during the 2000 elections.

  Glad to see someone else is educated on this fact, but telling people this causes them to get upset.

[Dave Gray]

The disconnect we're having with rights is that they don't have to be explicitly stated in order to be constitutionally protected.

Rights can be both implicitly or explicitly be stated by the constitution and both are constitutionally protected.

Voting rights are not explicitly stated, but they are very clearly inferred through other statements in regard to not limiting said rights, and thus, guaranteed by the document.