Polling methods can change results
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One headline this week blared: âBush leads by 8 points.â Another had Bush up by 3 percentage points. Three other national polls showed the presidential race in a dead heat.
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While most voters have chosen their favorite candidate for president, several sites offer online tests for the undecided. In some cases, the results can be quite contradictory. By Joanna Glasner.
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For those U.S. residents still unsure which presidential candidate to vote for -- and there appear to be quite a few who can't make up their minds less than a week before the election -- there's a new Web-based tool that can help voters match their positions to those of the major presidential candidates.
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Statisticians release an analysis debunking a previous Berkeley study that said President Bush received more votes than he should have in Florida counties that used touch-screen voting machines. By Kim Zetter.
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On his blog, Stuart Herbert has a quick tip showing how to mimic a feature of Ruby on Rails:   I'm still working on the next article in my series looking at PHP on servers, so in the mean time, check out this simple way to emulate Ruby's nice way of handling separate getter, setter and state query methods in PHP.   He admits his example isn't as elegant as the Ruby method, but it does get the job done. Code for the method is included in his post ready for cut and pasting.
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The International PHP Magazine has posted results from their latest poll conducted over this past week asking which, of their given options, is the best helpful hint for creating a web application in PHP.   Two of the options ranked higher than the rest with one (Page/object caching) coming out on top of the other (Don't save performance testing for the end of the project). The remainder of the votes were divided pretty evenly between the last three options: "Use multi result set queries to your database", "gzip compression", and "Tune your web server".   While you're in the polling mood, you should check out this week's new poll that wonders which of their options might be the biggest hindrance to PHP5's adoption in the community.
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The risk of dogs and children being given votes could be cut by changing how people register to vote, says a watchdog.
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Pollsters missed the mark in predicting the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. This year, with major polling groups forecasting significantly different results in the race for president, expect more of the same. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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Telephone surveys are the meat and potatoes of political polling groups. But as more Americans switch from land lines to cell phones, a growing segment of the population may be left out of the equation. By Daniel Terdiman.
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When voters enter the polling booths in November they deserve a clear pathway forward on Utah's voucher policy.  Right now there are several lawsuits moving through the judicial system, and I will be watching with great interest to see if clarity results.
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Political polling outfits exclude cell phone users from this year's presidential surveys. But a new survey indicates that mobile phone users are a distinct voting group whose ballot preferences might not be reflected in traditional polls. By Elisa Batista.
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By The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 6--It seems like only yesterday Virginia and the rest of the nation overhauled election technology after Florida's contested 2000 results. Electronic, touch-screen devices were supposed to solve the problems and restore electoral faith.   They failed.
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A look at problems at the polls in recent elections.
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Political wonks no longer need to hunch over their PCs to track the political leanings of different regions. A new service sends that data to cell phones and PDAs, so people can find out instantly if they're in a Democratic or Republican stronghold. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Internet-based alternatives to traditional polls are trying to make inroads, offering greater accuracy for far less money.
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Activists and computer programmers Wednesday demonstrated what they said were flaws with electronic voting machines that could allow hackers to change vote outcomes Nov. 2. They recommended new procedures for states and counties to put in place before Election Day.
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Early results and projections better than opinion polls in recent days have suggested