Saturday, November 10, 2012 by: Jon Rappoport
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Here is what happened on election night in California. With many millions of votes still not counted, television stations up and down the state sealed the fate of Prop 37, by saying it had lost.
Many of those California votes are still uncounted. Yesterday, by consulting four of the 57 county registrars in the state, I found 1.6 million votes still unprocessed. That was chicken feed.
An updated report, as of noon today, November 9, posted at the California Secretary of State's website, indicates that, for all of California, a boggling 3.3 million votes remain uncounted.
So who called the shots? Who made the early and grossly premature projection on election night? Who told all the media outlets that Prop 37 had been defeated?
I suspected it was Edison Media Research, an outfit that works for the National Election Pool (NEP). NEP is a media consortium that supplies election-night information to the press. This morning I spoke with a representative of Edison, who told me they didn't make the projection on Prop 37.
If true, that leaves Associated Press (AP) as the leading suspect. AP is part of the National Election Pool as well. AP has awesome resources.
I spoke with Erin Madigan White, media relations manager at AP. I asked her whether AP had made the projections for Prop 37 to media outlets.
She emailed me the following tidbit. It was not quite an answer to my question, but it was illuminating:
"To clarify: AP does not make 'projections,' but bases our reporting on counting real votes from every precinct. As our story notes specifically, 'With all the state's precincts reporting, Proposition 37 failed 53.1 percent to 46.9 percent.'"
When someone gives you this kind of sleight-of-hand maneuver, it's called a clue. Let's start with this phrase: "With all the state's precincts reporting." The precincts were all reporting PARTIAL results. Even today, there are 3.3 million votes in CA still to be counted.
This tells you that AP was lying. That's right. Let's call it what it was. They were lying about "all precincts." It was an intentional con.
And what does the phrase "bases our reporting on counting real votes" mean? It certainly means "calling the result of an election." Because that's exactly what AP did with Prop 37, based on partial results, on Nov.8. That's a projection. They say they don't make projections, but they do. That's another lie.
On election night, I believe AP must have been the entity who passed voting information on Prop 37 to media outlets throughout California.
AP will not speak about their business relationships with media outlets. They will not name those outlets. They claim "client confidentiality" on this matter. Why?
I believe the answer is obvious. AP, the giant wire service, doesn't want people to know how much influence they have on what media outlets report. AP doesn't want the public to know how much of the news, everywhere, comes from AP. And media outlets don't want their own customers to know how much of what they report is really flat-out or recycled AP material.
This powerful AP influence certainly would extend to election-night reporting.
Knowing how the National Election Pool basically works, I see no other entity who could have played that information-provider role for all the networks, TV stations, radio stations, websites, and newspapers in California...and in the country, on this past election night, with respect to Prop 37.
With millions of votes outstanding and uncounted, I conclude it was AP who provided the data to the networks, who then made the early calls against Prop 37 and sank it.
After I wrote the original article yesterday, which exposed the big lie about Prop 37 early projections, I received many emails. You can read that article here:
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So, no, Virginia. No. Everything is not okay.
