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      "id": 102870,
      "date": "2001-01-23",
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      "title": "Election Projections: First Amendment Issues",
      "summary": "Media projections may be based both on exit polls and on information acquired as to actual\nballot\ncounts. The First Amendment would generally preclude Congress from prohibiting the media from\ninterviewing voters after they exit the polls. It apparently would also preclude Congress from\nprohibiting the media from reporting the results of those polls. Congress, could, however, ban voter\nsolicitation within a certain distance from a polling place, and might be able to include exit polling\nwithin such a ban. It also might be able to deny media access to ballot counts, either when the polls\nhave not closed in the jurisdiction whose votes are being counted, or when the polls have not closed\nacross the nation.",
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