General Election - 4th July 2024

[bluenova]

The way these exit polls work is if you get asked and agree you get a mock voting slip, you select the candidate you voted for, fold it and put it in the box. Just like you did in the real poll. The “pollsters” then call the office and tell them the result on each slip. Perhaps they do do that periodically during the day in which case you’d be right. I’d be surprised though but if it’s secure I suppose it’s ok.

It's definitely been as soon as the polls close for years - going back to the 1980s they used to have a couple of minutes of build-up, but now it's literally the second it turns 10pm.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It's definitely been as soon as the polls close for years - going back to the 1980s they used to have a couple of minutes of build-up, but now it's literally the second it turns 10pm.

Said on the radio earlier it will be "just before" 10pm - presume announce it go straight to the news headlines to let it sink in and back to flesh it out

 

[bluethrunthru]

if this happens I will be dead by Saturday taken by alcoholic poisoning and laughter

 

[blue for life]

Meanwhile in the Liverpool Echo….
Change of UK Govt as Labour win Landslide - We explain why scousers are not affected

Or ‘why it’s good news for Arne Slot!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

In the last couple of elections it's been announced as Big Ben boings.

 

[blue for life]

if this happens I will be dead by Saturday taken by alcoholic poisoning and laughter

Same here! Sozzled in beer and whisky!!

 

[blue for life]

It’s uncanny how accurate the exit poll is

 

[bluethrunthru]

even allowing for possible anomalies they are fucked

 

[metalblue]

It's definitely been as soon as the polls close for years - going back to the 1980s they used to have a couple of minutes of build-up, but now it's literally the second it turns 10pm.

Yeah the link @west didsblue kindly posted shows how they do it. I stand corrected.

 

[inchy14]

if this happens I will be dead by Saturday taken by alcoholic poisoning and laughter

Shame there’s not a couple more;
Rees fucking Mogg and Dowden for a start.