After queues meant people were unable to vote in some parts of England in the 2010 UK General Election, Mr Mackay announced changes would be made so that those who turn up at the polling station in time would still be able to cast their ballot, even if the polling station had closed.
Frankly, a lot of pollsters, myself included, think the media spends too much time on polling, and we think that the media spends too much time - not NPR.
Other features include real-time polling during a conference session, and audience analytics about attendee backgrounds, interests and demographics.
And the onset of standard time's early nightfall seemed inconsequential as voters arrived at polling stations until closing time.
Early voting requires states to staff polling locations for weeks at a time and to maintain and secure the polling machines.
They do this from the time the polling place opens until shortly before it closes.
It was designed to communicate results in real-time, from polling stations around the country to a national tallying centre in Nairobi.
Instead of spending a lot of time and effort polling hundreds or thousands of audience members and trying to get honest feedback, you can read this short book (in which I will also tell you how to effectively poll your audience members and get honest feedback).
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Harris Interactive conducted the survey online for CareerBuilder, polling 4, 216 full-time workers who were not self-employed.
Usman Khan, 75, was at the polling booth soon after 0700 local time.
But, conveniently, the Levada report also contained polling data from a much longer time horizon with many more data points.
Polling data was gathered in real time to understand where the campaign was losing ground and to allocate resources surgically.
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Spain's recovery, in other words, will at best be faintly apparent by the time voters reach the polling booths early in 2012.
But a similar fear that the chosen polling date, at the wettest time of year and near Christmas, would dampen voter interest, did not come to pass.
"There is a gender gap on this question, with most men saying Obama is taking too long and most women willing to give him more time, " CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
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The time-consuming voting overwhelmed polling centers on Election Day and left legislators looking for relief.
Polling carried out at about the same time by YouGov in the 130 most marginal Labour-held constituencies conveyed a similarly bleak message.
In the Defence area, unprecedented queues of voters were seen that day, partly because polling stations didn't open on time but also because of the enthusiasm to vote.
The whole idea is to give everyone who took the time to show up at a polling station access to a ballot.
Polling stations opened at 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Saturday.
The Gallup Poll, which showed no erosion of momentum, was conducted at roughly the same time as the second wave of polling done by the Pew Center.
Some polling stations reportedly even ran short, for a time, of the indelible ink used to mark voter pinkies.
The observers say there is not enough time to retrain the people in charge of polling stations.
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The county didn't have enough time to purchase optical scan machines for each polling place, which would have helped to detect errors on the spot, giving voters a chance to correct them.
This time, most Yes voters popping into a polling station in the small town of Swords on their way to work gave me the same reason for their vote: that the treaty was needed to streamline the voting rules of an EU at 27 nations.
Ms. HILLMAN: You know, and bless the child's heart, you know, but inside the polling place - because I think most voters do when they get in to the polling place want to have that little bit of down time if you will away from the heat of the campaign.
The polling date of autumn 2014 fits SNP plans: they want time to convince the Scottish people.
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Because of extra polling stations, there were none of the excessively long queues so common last time.
Some polling stations I visited in rural Mberengwa and Shurugwi were empty by 1400 local time (1200 GMT), with just 2-300 people having cast their ballots.
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