The National Election Pool (NEP) is a consortium of American news organizations formed in 2003 to provide exit polling information for US elections, replacing the Voter News Service following the latter's disbandment the same year.
[6] Fox News and the Associated Press formerly were part of the Pool, but left in 2017 due to plans to conduct their exit polls and other experimental alternatives to gauge voter sentiment.
[7] The organizers of the pool say that the purpose of their quick collection of exit poll data is not to determine if an election is flawed, but rather to project winners of races.
Despite past problems, they note that all of their members have correctly called a winner since the current system was put in place.
[8] However, to avoid the premature leaking of data, collection is now done in a "Quarantine Room" at an undisclosed location in New York.