Demographically, political social media users are not representative of the registered (eligible) voters, nor of the turnout at elections/referendums, and therefore cannot be considered a representative and unbiased sample of the voting population [2].
When participants are not paid for their time [10], or are paid only a small fee, it is likely that most of those who take part will live in the close vicinity of the broadcasting venue, which may not give rise to a representative sample of the voting population at large.
The agency's investigation centered on 207 votes that allegedly were made by dead people in the Nov. 2, 2010 election — when a total of 1,365,480 votes were cast — after officials concluded that that batch constituted a "representative sampling" of the alleged voting irregularities.
But if that were true, it's not clear how Stop the Steal's plan to conduct exit polling ― in which pollsters survey a tiny sample of the electorate, after their votes are cast ― would have any impact on overall rates of that crime.
To ensure that quota samples mirror the voting intentions of the nation, polling firms need to use controls which are good at distinguishing Conservative from Labour voters.
Since the 1990 sample used for the voting selection correction did not suffer from the same sort of sample size issues as the 1989 supplements, the linearized regression was not employed for the voting regressions.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll was conducted from January 13-17 of this year and involved interviews on landline and cellular telephones with a representative sample of 1,000 voting age Americans.
But it just happened that votes were being cast immediately after Hazard and Mata had trussed up West Ham so silkily that he was even noticed by the former players whose platitudes on Match of the Day provide a chilling sample of the acuity that informs this vote.
Thus if we observe a sample of votes on stories over the same time interval for each story, the distribution of votes, and hence location on the popularity list, would follow a lognormal distribution.
Basically Facebook would take a representative sample of the user base, educate them intensively, and then have them vote.
However, it is necessary to specify that our findings may overestimate the impact of migration on political opinions and attitudes as our empirical study has been conducted on a sample of voting migrants.
