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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Again referring to Europe, exit polls in the voting day are allowed but they can't publish the results while the voting period is open. Precisely to avoid the influence to undecided voters.
Why not? Anyone can arrange an exit poll and publish the results. The question is whether these results are authoritative enough to trust the outcome.

Well, they're not, because they, by design don't have the same authentication and integrity measures as the real election. Both those who are polled as well as those who poll are able to meddle with the outcome of the exit poll. Exit polls are also never anonymous.

No, the issue is publishing real results (even partly!) while anyone is still able to vote. The outcome of this exit poll is not the real result.

Therefore, if someone would use non-maemo.org server to make some kind of exit poll we cannot moderate that. There is nothing we can do to stop that.

(My dislike of exit polls notwithstanding.)
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