A Request to Partisans: Don&#39;t Shoot the Pollster
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There has been no shortage of targets for partisans of all persuasions this election season. But one group has come under fire from all sides: pollsters, who in these
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Are poll results really that reliable?  There are plenty of flaws in the system
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This presidential election has been described by many as one in which morality mattered most to voters. But that perception may be driven at least partially by how pollsters asked voters about their priority issues.
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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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You have to admire one thing about Dick Cheney: Heâs unabashedly direct. When the Vice President told Iowa voters last week, âif we make the wrong choice [in this election] then the danger
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A U.S. pollster whose firm wrongly predicted President Hugo Chavez would lose a recall referendum on Thursday defended the exit poll, which has landed in the center of a national controversy.
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Some elections are about persuasion. This one is about turnout. In past presidential debates, candidates have tried to change people&#39;s minds and win over undecideds.
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The nation&#39;s broadcast networks and cable news channels will also be on tenterhooks, eager to be first with results, fearful of dancing too far out on the fragile limbs of exit polls.
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Most area voters won&#39;t need a lawyer Tuesday when they go to the polls. But they may need a little patience. &quot;Bring ID, and don&#39;t get discouraged when the lines are long,&quot; said St.
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Delaying the January vote would raise new dangers. So will going ahead
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Comment is free: Andrew Rawnsley: Despite his dire ratings in the polls, there will be no attempt to assassinate Sir Menzies Campbell at his party conference.
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This year&#39;s USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup polling on the presidential race is coming under attack from liberal critics who say Gallup&#39;s methods produce results that are biased in favor of President Bush.
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When it comes to covering politics, journalists often fall into the 'he said, she said' trap without taking the time to delve into the details. The nonpartisan FactCheck.org jumps into the informational breach. By Louise Witt.
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Ahead of this weekend&#39;s elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, leading politicians have been calling for voters to turn out and cast their ballots against far right parties.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Also: E-voting a 'threat' to UK democracy. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Lawyers warn that voters in battleground states will face a barrage of dirty tricks at the polls Tuesday, with some political operatives planning to pose as law-enforcement officers to scare people away.