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The social worker, who mainly goes by her first name, reckons that a poll worker might have added the honorific to her name in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Utility costs are up there with healthcare, gas prices and food costs when it comes to consumers’ affordability worries, a KFF poll showed Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

And Zuckerberg is unpopular: last year, a Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of Americans had an unfavourable opinion of him.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Authorities said it was the most voted name in an online poll done in May, but some online media users accused authorities of rigging the vote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has secured a narrow victory in Peru's local elections, exit polls show.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The person who orders the agents or officers to the polls also would face criminal liability for doing that,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Instead Attal prepared to exercise his regulatory powers again, lining up about 10 billion euros in additional cuts that he had yet to implement as voters went to the polls in June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Millions of Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the country's presidential elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Opinion polls showed that the Congress was far and away the most popular political organization among Africans even though it had been banned for a quarter of a century.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

He even polled users on Truth Social, where "super intelligence" beat out the other option, "superior intelligence."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

India’s central bank is likely to raise its policy repo rate by 25 bps to 5.50% on Wednesday, according to nine out of 10 economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Inflation is the reason Treasury yields have risen so much, according to investors polled in Deutsche Bank Research Institute’s third-quarter survey.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected a reading of 55.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

We polled 62.6 percent of the national vote, slightly short of the two-thirds needed had we wished to push through a final constitution without support from other parties.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“If the voter prefers to vote in person and they haven’t yet updated their address, we will assist them with completing an address update form at the polling place.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

After polling officials in 90 Florida cities and counties, researchers said the officials were already devising backup plans to put in effect if the amendment passes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“It’s low likelihood, and it’s certainly impossible that any sort of federal presence could be there at every polling site in America,” said Aaron Blacksberg, federal policy counsel at the Institute for Responsive Government.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

About 30 polling stations - at churches and community centres - in the north London constituency opened at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00, when a count will begin.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela