[EL] Political Polling

[Edward Still]

I have gotten the same call within the last week or so. Our primary is on
not-so-Super Tuesday, 13 March. I hung up as soon as the voice said I would
get a cruise. I figured, "yeah, right."


Edward Still
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Legitimate political polls don’t use automated voices and push button
> responses. That’s totally unscientific.****
>
> Larry ****
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Todd Lang
> *Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 1:29 PM
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> *To:* Lisa Danetz; Rick Hasen; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Political Polling****
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> I received the same call out here in Arizona.   I think it is just a scam
> to get your credit card # for the “free cruise.”    Hang up.****
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> -Todd Lang****
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> *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 2:09 PM
> *To:* Rick Hasen; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* [EL] Political Polling****
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> 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."****
>
>  ****
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> 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.****
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>  ****
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> Thanks,****
>
> Lisa****
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