Guy Molyneux, a Democratic pollster, points out that in the past four elections with a sitting president, the incumbent's actual vote was almost exactly the same as his final polling number.
But although Thursday is official polling day, a number of authorities opened polling stations early as part of an experiment aimed at encouraging more people to use their votes.
Eide said a significant number of polling stations in strife-torn Helmand, Kandahar, Ghazni and Wardak provinces will not be able to open due to security reasons.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
Among Republicans, 54% liked the proposal, which in our polling is a relatively low number for GOP voters on policy proposal identified with their party.
It said in a statement on Friday that it was worried about new regulations from the electoral commission limiting the number of observers at polling stations.
The rate of selection depends on the number of voters expected at the polling place that day.
White says it would be simpler if there were satellite polling places set up in cities where a large number of New Orleans evacuees live.
He said the delays are due to high voter turnout, a large number of contested seats and long travel times for polling officers.
He said the number of postal votes being delivered on election day to polling stations and obtained through last-minute Royal Mail delivery arrangements was growing.
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For the past few weeks I have seen a notable increase in the number of students asking how they might investigate careers involving polling or data analysis.
On Monday, the Election Commission activated another of Nadra's SMS software devices that enables voters to receive their serial number on the electoral rolls and the name of the polling station where they are to vote.
Senior members of Mr Odinga's coalition have given the BBC further details about their allegations, saying that the number of ballots counted exceeded that of votes cast at some polling stations.
Some of you may have used new-fangled methods of voting like text messaging, or maybe you posted your preference and found that you were one of a growing number of people who posted their preferences instead of popping along to the local polling station.
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Number one is Ron Paul, and Giuliani's number 10, you know, but that doesn't bear out in the polling.
In fact, standing at a polling station on Wednesday, in the freezing December morning, one thing that stood out was the number of elderly and very infirm who turned out to vote - many of them had to be physically helped to the ballot box.
The idea of converting ATMs to act as polling stations may be far-fetched, but the video suggests users could confirm their identities using their secure PIN number.
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