Latest Editorial
February 27, 2025
Public opinion surveys play a role in democracy. They are tools for data gathering, providing a snapshot of the fleeting views of the general public. But some surveys can be plagued by errors, among them sampling bias, loaded questions, response and interviewer bias, and low response rates. The problem becomes more acute with pre-election polls, where the main issue is the survey’s conditioning effect on voters. Section 5.1 of the Fair Election Act defines election