Exit Polling

On the day of the New York Primary we went out to exit poll. We went outside of the voting area and waited till someone came out. Once someone came out we approached them and asked them if they voted. If they voted, we asked them more questions on a sheet of paper. If they didn’t we wouldn’t ask them any more questions.

Something I learned during exit polling is some people will be very busy, and just walk past you after you approach them. Three people walked straight past me. I also learned that there are a bunch of different times you could vote. Some things that surprised me was that most of the peoples answers were Hillary Clinton. I thought it was mostly going to be Bernie Sanders. Something else that surprised was that the data recorders got the percentages correct for the neighborhood.

My experience polling was very fun. I completed all the sheets on my clipboard. Some people were really nice. Someone didn’t want to say who they voted for so we did not email that to the data collectors. It was also challenging to go up to people and ask them questions.