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Voters cast early ballots in North Carolina on October 17. Exit polls survey early voters, Election Day voters and mail-in-ballot voters to help gauge how an election might swing (Getty Images)
Exit polls include those who vote absentee or early in two ways. The first is by conducting multi-mode polls (i.e. by phone, text and email) among those who have voted absentee or early.
The national exit poll will include approximately 20,000 interviews in total, including in-person on Election Day, in-person during early voting and via telephone to capture other early voters ...
Exit polls are also used to collect demographic data about voters and to find out why they voted as they did. Since actual votes are cast anonymously, polling is the only way of collecting this information. Exit polls have historically and throughout the world been used as a check against, and rough indicator of, the degree of election fraud.
The earliest results from this year’s exit polls will be reported after 5 p.m. ET on Election Day. Data that could characterize the outcome of a race is not reported until after the polls have ...
Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled election day. Early voting can take place remotely, such as via postal voting , or in person, usually in designated early voting polling stations .
An election verification exit poll (EVEP) is a relatively new concept in polling, intended to improve the accuracy of exit polls to such an extent that they can be used to verify election results. Traditional (media) exit polling relies on small samples, whereas EVEPs propose to use larger samples.
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