For a long time exit polling was an excellent way to both predict the outcome of the election, and check the accuracy of the election. There were always multiple institutions and interest groups doing their own exit polling, and the media used the exit polls to assure the public all was right with the election. In the year 2000 there was an unprecedented discrepancy between the election results and the exit polls. Thus began the war against exit polling.

The media moved in lock step selling the idea that exit polling was wildly inaccurate and even dangerous. While the election process adapted to make exit polling impossible. Be certain, that the end result in this process of adaptation is to ensure no one will ever be able to check or even question the accuracy of an election.