[EL] Political Polling

[Larry Levine]

Sounds phony to me. I've had scores and scores of polls done for my clients
over the last 42 years and we've never offered an incentive of any kind for
completion. Was this a live person conducting the survey or was it one in
which you had to push a number on your touch pad to respond to an automated
voice? In either case this is highly irregular and I'll bet no matter what
you did you wouldn't see a cruise ship or the Bahamas.

Larry

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa
Danetz
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 1:09 PM
To: Rick Hasen; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Political Polling

 

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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