Early voting, cell phone use and the decline of accurate polls
Add comment October 21st, 2008
There’s a flurry of early voting activity, I can report. I voted Monday at the Rockford Board of Elections, where at 4:45 p.m. I was surprised to find a flurry of activity — people voting early. Turns out that since early voting started Oct. 8, about 3,000 people have voted. I was the 183rd voter in the 9th ward to cast a ballot.
This early voting, which is becoming common throughout the nation, will render the polling business utterly inaccurate and obsolete, as the use of cell phones is already doing.
Pollsters don’t call cell phones, they call land lines. I don’t know about you, but I hardly ever use the phone that’s plastered to the wall in my house. I always tell people, “call my cell.”
