Alisha Hansman
MAT 115
Voting Schemes and Polling
My Precinct:
Ft. Thomas E
Ft
I purposely chose to go to my precinct to vote around
noon hoping that there would be a rush of voters to make my exit polling
easier. I had to wait a few minutes in line to vote because there were many
people at the voting sight. After I voted, I walked outside and decided to
stand by the cross walk because most people seemed to park in the parking lot
across from the precinct or on the street in front of the precinct. By standing
here, most voters had to walk past me on the way to their cars.
I started asking people by random. The location of where
I was standing turned out to really help me. Some people had to stop and wait
for cars to pass before they could cross the street. This gave me a good
opportunity to ask people since they were already stopped. No one seemed to
mind telling me who they voted for. I only had one person who did not want to
share who they voted for. One person did not even bother to take the slips of
paper from me, but instead just stated out loud who they voted for. I noticed
that there were more women than men at the time I was exit polling. I would
guess that about two-thirds of the people I asked were women. The ages of the
voters I asked seemed to be varied. It only took me about twenty minutes to
collect thirty votes. Some of my votes were easy to get because twice there
were a group of voters that walked out together and I only had to explain what
I was doing once to the group and I would get four or five voters responses
within a minute. I was nervous to do exit polling at first because I thought
people would not want to stop and listen to me or would not want to share their
vote. However, I think I had a positive experience with exit polling.
Total Votes
Rand Paul: 19
Jack Conway: 11