[specialist]

Well then.

I am explicitly not shutting you down. I shared my views and why. I encouraged you to do the same.

For instance, one cheap and obvious way to improve uitilityof exit polling would be to implement compulsory voting.

Also, please work on a campaign. To the best of my knowledge, modern campaigns don't rely much on polling. Most effort is put into GOTV (voter identification and balloting chasing).

Edit: Oops. I'm not familiar with Republican campaigns. In my area, their GOTV is less potent and they rely far more on advertising. So they might still be more reliant on polling. It's a good question for me to follow up.

Opinion polls are still useful in other ways. Depending on who's paying. Sanity checks. Push polling. Message crafting. Talking points, a la Voted San Fran's Favorite Pho Restaurant. Feeding corporate media's horserace narrative. Policy groups trying to gather intel on both opponents and allies. Consultants fleecing noob candidates. Arm waving because old school operators expect it.

YMMV.

[Ill_ban_myself]

KOBE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMe2H3mIKk

[Ill_ban_myself]

At the danger of DOX'ing myself I'll just say I was a hair's breadth from closing the loop on full online voter registration in 2008 but apparently local offices are not REQUIRED to accept faxed registrations and might FORGET to change the toner or turn them on.

This is not my first brush with radical voting ideas and I'm not afraid to put them into practice when legal signs off :-p

These days I settle for election judging. Isn't that a scary thought?

You should google project Houdini, narwhal, and orca