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This came up at lunch. I mentioned being asked a few times and then going with the most obscure or outrageous party on the ballot to mess with the results.
I was surprised several of my colleagues did the same, and one admitted being too embarrassed to tell the truth.

I wonder how common this is. Make it a hypothetical if you've never been asked.

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I would tell the truth so long as I was not being filmed or named or anything. If I was I would tell them to F off.

Two elections ago they had some young pissed-off bitch asking, I guess everyone answered the same way I did: "Mind your own business".
Last time it was a nice old lady asking, I told her nicely that I preferred not to say.

Exit polls don't work - official.

QuoteThe failure of pollsters to forecast the outcome of the general election was largely due to "unrepresentative" poll samples, an inquiry has found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948)

I wouldn't say anything.

I would say.

Quote from: Brazen on February 01, 2016, 10:55:31 AM
Exit polls don't work - official.

QuoteThe failure of pollsters to forecast the outcome of the general election was largely due to "unrepresentative" poll samples, an inquiry has found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948)

Pollsters have an issue with the mobile generation & call screening.

I'd say "none of your business".

Got asked once; I gave the name of a loony party just to mess with them.

I am surprised by responses here. Why would I not want to say who I voted for? :|

I don't vote.

Sure, why not? If I am too embarrassed to say who I voted for, I guess I shouldn't vote for them in the first place.

Quote from: Zanza on February 01, 2016, 12:52:30 PM
Sure, why not? If I am too embarrassed to say who I voted for, I guess I shouldn't vote for them in the first place.

Not sure if, or how exit polling is regulated in other places.  But one reason people no longer respond to exit polling here is because the polling is often done by the candidates themselves, not a neutral research entity.  So what you say is used to help individual campaigns as the election is still going on.  They can use the real time information to direct resources and volunteers etc. 

Exit polls here are done by the same institutes that do the pre-election polls. As far as I know, they are fairly reputable and of course the exit poll is anonymous (they will write down some stuff like your age bracket or sex).

Quote from: Brazen on February 01, 2016, 10:55:31 AM
Exit polls don't work - official.

QuoteThe failure of pollsters to forecast the outcome of the general election was largely due to "unrepresentative" poll samples, an inquiry has found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35347948)

But there was only one exit poll and it did work - or at least worked a hell of a lot better than the hundreds of non-exit polls.

I would not say.  In person I prefer to keep that kind of thing private.

Quote from: Zanza on February 01, 2016, 01:35:59 PM
Exit polls here are done by the same institutes that do the pre-election polls. As far as I know, they are fairly reputable and of course the exit poll is anonymous (they will write down some stuff like your age bracket or sex).

Same here.

Exit polling isn't permitted here.  We just wait to see the results from the actual polling stations.

I really don't see the problem with admitting who I voted for. Its not like the winner will track down and kill those who didn't pick them.

Quote from: Tyr on February 02, 2016, 10:46:55 AM
I really don't see the problem with admitting who I voted for. Its not like the winner will track down and kill those who didn't pick them.

Yeah tell that to....wait I have already said too much.

Quote from: Tyr on February 02, 2016, 10:46:55 AM
I really don't see the problem with admitting who I voted for. Its not like the winner will track down and kill those who didn't pick them.

That depends on which country you live in.

It took a long while to establish the principle of a secret ballot, so that is one reason I wouldn't answer the pollster, think of it as a minor bit of solidarity with those who still don't have a secret ballot.

Secondly, I don't think the opinion polls are good for politics. All this triangulation of some tiny group of people to try and inch past the winning post........bah! If we didn't have opinion polls we would avoid this and have party positions based on principles rather than the wind direction.

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 02, 2016, 12:48:47 PM
Secondly, I don't think the opinion polls are good for politics. All this triangulation of some tiny group of people to try and inch past the winning post........bah! If we didn't have opinion polls we would avoid this and have party positions based on principles rather than the wind direction.

Yep, most positive aspect of people not using land lines is pollsters can no longer reliably obtain a representative sample and convey information to politicians which in turn causes politicians to be guided by something other than overnight polling results.