Source: Deccan Herald | Premchand Palety, Oct 27, 2013
Critics say poll panel move is an insult to voter's intellect, no proof to say surveys sway electors.
In 2002, C fore conducted exit poll for Doordarshan, the only government channel in India and also the most viewed in those days, for elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur. The election was in four phases and for every phase we conducted exit poll. Our predictions were on the dot. The seats and vote share we predicted for different parties in different phases were very close to the actual results much in contrast with other channels. The Doordarshan officials were very happy.
But to my surprise , few days after the election results were out, Doordarshan took a decision not to conduct any election survey. The decision was taken because.........
Read more at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/365475/ec-again-ban-pre-poll.html
Critics say poll panel move is an insult to voter's intellect, no proof to say surveys sway electors.
In 2002, C fore conducted exit poll for Doordarshan, the only government channel in India and also the most viewed in those days, for elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur. The election was in four phases and for every phase we conducted exit poll. Our predictions were on the dot. The seats and vote share we predicted for different parties in different phases were very close to the actual results much in contrast with other channels. The Doordarshan officials were very happy.
But to my surprise , few days after the election results were out, Doordarshan took a decision not to conduct any election survey. The decision was taken because.........
Read more at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/365475/ec-again-ban-pre-poll.html
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