[EL] Political Polling

[Richard Winger]

I got the same call.  I decided to complete it, even though I had no faith that it would result in a free vacation.  But when the automatic voice asked for my party, and didn't give any option to express any party except Democratic, Republican, or "independent" (which is not a party, but a desire not to be a member of any party) I hung up.

Richard Winger

415-922-9779

PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

--- On Mon, 3/5/12, Lisa Danetz <ldanetz at demos.org> wrote:

From: Lisa Danetz <ldanetz at demos.org>
Subject: [EL] Political Polling
To: "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu>, "law-election at uci.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>
Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 1:08 PM


 
 



While working from home today, I received a phone call on my house phone asking me to take a political survey and promising me a free 2-day cruise to the Bahamas if I completed it.  I took the survey but hung up rather than "push 1 to be connected
 to the travel expert."
 
This seemed to me to be a rather expensive incentive to complete a survey (unless perhaps most people hang up as I did). Is this a normal practice or used for particular types of polls?  I wondered whether it was
 a push poll since we have a primary in Massachusetts tomorrow.
 
Thanks,
Lisa



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