How To Vote In Peopl Elections

When the United States government is described, the first word that comes to mind is that it is a well-known democracy. This means the citizens of the United States must show their support for those that they wish to represent them. To have a clear visualization of what candidate has the best chances of becoming elected, the support shown for candidates is produced into quantitative data that represents the population’s opinions. This is called a poll and when it is done correctly and efficiently, then when the final results of an election are announced, there will be a small margin of error between the finalized results and the surveyed polls that were unofficial. There are about 320 million people in the United State and only about 60% of these Americans voted in 2012 for the President of the United States. How are the poll conductors supposed to predict the votes from the 200 million people that vote? To produce these polls in an accurate way, steps must be taken to ensure that there will be no bias to whom is asked to take this poll. A fundamental guideline is that the …show more content…
If the call is not answered the first time a house is called then the phone number is stored so that the call can be attempted later into the day. This actually makes the poll less bias because this means that people are answering at all times of the day instead of just the morning or afternoon individually. When reached, the caller is immediately notified that the number is chosen at random. Next, Gallup either asks for the oldest adult in the house or they ask for a full list of the adults in the households as well as their age and gender and then choose randomly. If the adult chosen is not home at the time, Gallup chooses to wait for that individual instead of asking another adult. These procedures are accurate, but they can be expensive and are not conducted quickly especially if time is a