Subject: Re: About last night From: jeffreys@nj2.n-jcenter.com Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:00:39 -0500 (EST)

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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Adam Gaffin wrote:

> Yeah! In addition to the technical issues (if you had site 
> congestion, was it due to the bandwidth, the server or both?),

	The Florida Department of State Division of elections got 
overload from people wanting election results... It was almost like 
trying to get into the National Hurricane Center with an approaching storm.


 I'm 
> curious as to whether people were logging in just to grab the latest 
> numbers or if they were also reading any articles posted along with 
> the results.

	We updated our local tallies nine times last night and had the 
finals online two hours before the paper went to press. We had people 
calling wanting to know why it wasn't online.

> demanding to know, really) why I wasn't posting exit-poll numbers.

	People have high expectations from online newspapers. We are on 
the cutting edge. I personally detest exit polls. How can you expect the 
exit voter to tell the truth... in fact... how can you expect any poll 
recipient to tell the truth. I certainly wouldn't because it's nobody's 
business how I vote... which begs the question... why use them? what 
purpose does it serve? At best it is an educated guess. We do enough 
educated guess reporting as it is.

 "I 
> can watch TV after the polls close; I want to know who's winning now" 
> one guy wrote).

	We have our niche and TV has its own... why should we try to be 
something we can;t be... We can't be TV... we should do what we do 
best... report the facts as quickly as we can.

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