Fine Print in Exit Poll Ruling — The big five networks and the Associated Press may have won a victory when U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan enjoined the state from enforcing a 100-foot exit polling ban during Tuesday’s elections. But other media — mostly small- and mid-sized newspapers and radio and TV stations — won’t benefit from the Oct. 23 ruling.
“That’s what we’re telling them,” New Jersey Press Association executive director John O’Brien says of the challenge by the six plaintiffs to the state Supreme Court’s Sept. 30 ruling in In re: Attorney General’s “Directive on Exit Polling,” which barred contacts within 100 feet of 40 as-yet-unspecified polling stations.
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