[EL] Political Polling

[Lisa Danetz]

It was automated.  Truthfully, I was more interested in the survey than the cruise.  Go figure.

Thanks for all the responses.

-Lisa

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From: Larry Levine [larrylevine at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 4:38 PM
To: Lisa Danetz; 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: RE: [EL] Political Polling

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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