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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
A legitimate exit poll yes, not one skewed to one class of voter (forum participants) and certainly not one that publishes results while the real polls are open. Perhaps in the future, this kind of poll could run as a service sponsored by a third party and the results view could be delayed until after real voting is over with.

No matter what the intent, published results of an exit poll will effect votes not yet cast.

I have plenty more to say but I will not say it until AFTER the polls close and in another thread...

Someone had a signature awhile ago about the states of a cat in a box that now somehow seems appropriate.

Are Exit Polls not normally run while the polls are open? Aren't they normally reported while the election is still under-way? I know in Michigan they poll you on the way out and you hear about the exit poll results on the news long before polls close and the actual counts are in.

Additionally the main problem with Exit Polls is IF the reporting entity projects a winner. Nobody hear is declaring a winner, on top of that this is a STV system.

This means even IF this did project a clear winner it would only be the winner of the most votes, it has no bearing on who will get the second and third and fourth and fifth votes. This poll is meaningless except to possibly predict the person who received the most votes which means they will be one of the new council members.
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