NJ Supreme Court ejects exit pollsters from 100-foot buffer zone at voting sitesSeptember 30th, 2009 NJ court reinstates ban on voting site exit pollsTRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Supreme Court has reinstated a ban on exit polls, surveys taken of people as they leave their voting places.
German exit polls leak via TwitterAugust 31st, 2009 BERLIN - Data from exit polls in Germany was widely distributed via the online service Twitter Sunday, breaking a confidentiality law and upsetting electoral officials. The data was embargoed until 6 p.m.
Exit polls were off the mark againMay 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The exit polls have gone wrong yet again. While all the surveys had predicted an edge for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), they also said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would be a close second.
Will win many more seats than predicted: CongressMay 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two days ahead of the poll results, the Congress party Thursday was upbeat about emerging the single largest party and dismissed exit polls carried out by media organisations. Party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Congress would prove the exit polls wrong by winning many more seats than predicted.
Exit polls are charade, says Chandrababu NaiduMay 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - With exit polls showing an edge to the Congress both in Andhra Pradesh and at the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu Thursday said the poll predictions by media are charade.
Exit polls are charade, says Chandrababu NaiduMay 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - With exit polls showing an edge to the Congress both in Andhra Pradesh and at the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu Thursday said the poll predictions by media are charade.
Will win many more seats than predicted: CongressMay 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two days ahead of the poll results, the Congress party Thursday was upbeat about emerging the single largest party and dismissed exit polls carried out by media organisations. Party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Congress would prove the exit polls wrong by winning many more seats than predicted.
Pollsters 2004 bitten, 2009 shy?May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Even as the exit polls for the Lok Sabha elections trickled in Wednesday evening predicting a hung parliament, one has to keep in mind that they had all gone woefully wrong in the 2004 electoral battle predicting exactly the opposite of the outcome. As many as five leading TV channels had then predicted in the previous elections that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would bag 230 to 278 seats and gave the Congress and its allies 171 to 205 seats.
Congress-led UPA slightly ahead of BJP led NDA in exit pollsMay 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA is trailing behind the Congress-led UPA in the projections given by different exit polls in the Lok Sabha elections. The surveys shown by electronic channels after the end of fifth phase of polling today placed the BJP-led NDA not very far behind the UPA and the Third Front likely to get little over 100 seats.
Opinion polls after elections end: poll panelMay 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Monday said that opinion and exit polls could be telecast May 13 after the close of voting in the fifth and final round of Lok Sabha elections at 5 p.m. 'Channels are free to air exit polls after the elections are over,' Deputy Election Commissioner R.
EC says, 6000 villages, hamlets undergoing polls are vulnerableMay 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission has declared that people in 6,000 villages and hamlets in seven states and two Union Territories, going to polls in the final phase of Lok Sabha Elections, are vulnerable to threats and intimidation. Deputy Election Commissioner R Balakrishnan said that nearly 19,000 trouble-makers have been identified against whom preventive measures have been initiated to ensure free and fair polls.
Election Commission reiterates ban on publishing opinion pollsApril 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission has reiterated that the result of opinion/exit polls should not be published from Tuesday evening till the conclusion of polls May 13. 'The result of opinion/exit polls carried out at any time cannot be published, publicised or disseminated in any manner, during the period starting from 48 hours before the hour fixed for conclusion of poll in the first phase of election and till the conclusion of poll in the last phase of election,' the Election Commission said in a statement Tuesday.
Election Commission bans exit, opinion pollsFebruary 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Tuesday banned the publication or telecast of opinion or exit polls 48 hours before the last hour of polling in single-phase balloting. In cases of multi-phase elections or elections announced simultaneously for different states, the poll panel banned the publication of exit and opinion polls in the period starting 48 hours before the close of first day of voting till the end of last day of balloting.
Political parties welcome ban on exit pollsFebruary 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Major political parties Tuesday welcomed the Election Commission's decision to ban publication or telecast of opinion/exit polls 48 hours before the last hour of polling in single-phase balloting. 'We welcome this decision.
Poll body can regulate exit polls: Supreme CourtJanuary 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Monday clarified that it never stopped the Election Commission from regulating exit polls and opinion surveys during elections, and said the panel is free to implement its guideline for the purpose. 'The Election Commission is free to frame its guidelines to regulate publication of exit polls,' said a bench of Chief Justice K.G.
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