The smartphone app hosts many additional features such as: voter registration information, voter specific polling place information, sample ballots, access to Associated Press real-time election coverage, videos, candidate and local ballot initiative information, and election results.

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Twitter attributes some of this to the differences between ongoing conversations (Twitter) and specific responses to specific questions (traditional polling).

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The electoral tribunal was set for that, and the electoral - and there are specific cases where you can open these polling station votes...

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Do any of the polling questions "lead" a respondent toward a specific answer?

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