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Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Contributing writer for Fast Company and The Atlantic. Editor at The Yale Review. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.

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15 days ago

This is actually a terrible point. Exit polling is subject to a host of methodological problems - most obviously self-selection and selection by person doing the polling - and is therefore a useless tool for trying to detect fraud (which it was in any case never intended to do).