The Florida exit poll was based on questionnaires that voters completed on Tuesday as they left primary election locations across the state.
Democratic officials made available a party poll of likely voters, completed on Thursday, in which respondents were asked whether Mr. Bush "sometimes seems a little arrogant".
Every step, with the exception of voters completing their single anonymous ballots, is witnessed by someone from each major party; this ensures that any partisan shenanigans or even honest mistakes will be caught by the other observers.
Progress has been made on creating a new voters' list (complete with photographs) of some 80.5m names.
When voters have complete information about each other's preferences, they will eliminate the dominated strategies in the first reduction.
Then the lawyers asked the disgruntled voters to complete ready-made affidavits or to prepare their own statements, which the voters signed under the watchful eyes of notaries.
Notorious for internecine squabbling in the past, this time round they ironed out their differences in advance and offered voters a complete package.
"There is lots of mileage in pointing out that the hardcore 'no' voters are complete mentalists," says a pro-European in a foreign policy think-tank.To distance itself from the little-Englanders, Vote No plans to draft in Eurosceptics from elsewhere in Europe.
In releasing results on Tuesday, for example, The Washington Post explained that all of its 1,271 interviews with likely voters were completed before the storm made landfall and that interviews completed on Monday were "similar to those from previous nights in the region".
