Citizen Exit Poll 2012

Citizen Exit Poll 2012’ first exit poll a great success!

Thank you to all that worked a shift at our poll today, you did a great job!

We are posting the Citizen Exit Poll 2012 raw data from the exit poll conducted at Precinct 310 in Melbourne, FL on Primary Election Day, August 14, 2012.

The exit poll went smoothly with no problems and we had a voter exit poll response of 62%.

A few voters were not quite sure they remembered who they had voted for and 4 voters checked off more candidates than allowed for an office, which have some effect on the accuracy of our totals.  However, from our raw data, our exit polls were very close to the official precinct totals when adjusted for the percent of voter response.

Since we had 62% of the voters respond to our exit poll, when we take 62% of the precinct official total votes, our results are fairly accurate.  Below is our raw data from our exit poll:

Candidate	Exit Poll total votes	Precinct total votes	62% of Precinct totals
US Senator
Glen A. Burkett	17	28	17
Connie Mack	34	52	32
Mike McCalister	7	20	12
Bill Nelson	57	92	57
Marielena Stuart	6	11	7
Dave Weldon	124	193	120

Candidate	Exit Poll total votes	Precinct total votes	62% of Precinct totals
State Rep. District 53
John Paul Alvarez	32	46	29
Edward (Ed) Lewis Geier	31	53	33
Tres Holton	37	50	31
John Tobia	99	153	95
Lauren Trent	16	32	20
County Judge Group 10
Judy Atkin	140	236	146
Sean C. Cutshall	38	51	32
Morris Richardson	53	88	55

This shows that exit polls are indeed an accurate and credible indicator of the accuracy of precinct official totals.