Editing Exit poll (section)

==History==
There are different views on who invented the exit poll. [[Marcel van Dam]], Dutch sociologist and former politician, says he was the inventor, by being the first to implement one during the Dutch legislative elections on 15 February 1967.<ref>Van Dam, Marcel P. A. and Jan Beishuizen (1967) "''Kijk op de kiezer''". Amsterdam: ''Het Parool''</ref> Other sources say [[Warren Mitofsky]], an American pollster, was the first. For [[CBS News]], he devised an exit poll in the Kentucky gubernatorial election in November that same year.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/obituaries/04mitofsky.html Warren J. Mitofsky, 71, Innovator Who Devised Exit Poll, Dies], ''The New York Times'', 4 September 2006</ref><ref>David W. Moore, Senior Gallup Poll Editor, “New Exit Poll Consortium Vindication for Exit Poll Inventor,” Gallup News Service, October 11, 2003</ref> Notwithstanding this, the mention of the first exit polls date back to the 1940s when such a poll was held in Denver, Colorado.<ref>Frankovic, K. A (1992) ''Technology and the Changing Landscape of Media Polls'' and [https://books.google.com/books?id=57mHzMmqUt4C&dq=Elections+and+Exit+Polling&pg=PA66 Fritz J. Scheuren, Wendy Alvey (2008) ''Elections and Exit Polling'' p. 5]</ref>{{failed verification|date=August 2017}}