Exit Poll When an election for political ofce takes place. the television networks cancel regular programming and instead provide election coverage, When the ballots are counted. the results are reported. However. for important ofces such as president or senator in large states. the networks actively compete to see which Will be the rst to predict a winner. This is done through exit polls.* wherein a random sample of voters who exit the polling booth is asked for Whom they voted. From the data. the sample proportion of voters supporting the candidates is computed. A statistical technique is applied to determine whether there is enough evidence to infer that the leading candidate will garner enough votes to win. Suppose that in the exit poll from the state of Florida during the 2000 year elections. the pollsters recorded only the votes of the two candidates who had any chalice of winning. Democrat Albeit Gore (code : l) and Republican George W. Bush (code : 2]. The polls close at 8:00 pm. C' an the networks conclude from these data that the Republican candidate will win the state? Should the network announce at 8:01 pm. that the Republican candidate will Win?