On Tuesday, April 19 my grade did some exit polling in the neighborhood. There was 4 different groups…

1.  Exit Poller

2. Data Collecter

3. Data Processer

4. School Survey

The Poller approached people in the neighborhood and asked questions like “Who did you vote for?”, “What is your gender?”, “How old are you?”, “Are you a Republican or Democrat?”, also “How happy were you with the choices for candidate?”.  With that question you would offer multiple choices, 1 for very unhappy to 5 for very happy. A Data Collector would go with the Pollers and compress the Pollers answers on to one sheet which would then get sent to the Data Processer.  The Data Processer (located at school) would then put the information into different categories, so that they can then find the winning candidate. Finally the School Survey representatives would ask the same questions as the Pollers to the LREI teachers.  I enjoyed this role.

I learned that primaries were necessary before the actual election to choose one candidate from each party. Prior to this process I thought you had an opportunity to vote for a President out of many Democrats and Republicans on a ballot. After the polling I was shocked that only 21 Republicans voted in our neighborhood. I assumed that there was going to be a more even split with the Democrats. Another surprise to me was that Kaisch won Manhattan’s primary election.  (Being that Trump is a force in NYC, I assumed he had that locked in.)  NYC is heavily Democratic and there were 10x more votes for this party.   The Data Processers collected the percentages for the Democratic side of the city on the mark. It was 33% for Bernie Sanders and 67% for Hillary Clinton! We found out the results on Wednesday and it looked very hard tabulate. Props for the Data Processers. We worked hard and our projection came out correct.