Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:
Forms of voting and counting
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Poll, a formal election
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Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts
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Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
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or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections
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Poll, a non-formal election:
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Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
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Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
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Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
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Survey (human research)
Agriculture
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Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head
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Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species
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Polling, livestock dehorning
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s
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Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries
Mathematics, science, and technology
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poll (Unix), a Unix system call
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POLL, DNA polymerase lambda
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Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status
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Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order
People
Given name or middle name
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Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal
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Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer
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Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer
Surname
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Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer
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Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
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George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician
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Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
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Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939), German anatomist and geneticist
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Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player
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Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director
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Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer
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Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist
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Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist
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Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author
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Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament
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Kim Polling (born 1991), Dutch judoka
Places
Austria
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Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria
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Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol
Germany
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Poll, Cologne, a quarter of Cologne, Germany
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Polling, Mühldorf, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria
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Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria
Other uses
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Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party
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Poll, the part of a claw hammer head containing its driving face
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Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation
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Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking
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Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
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Push poll, an interactive marketing technique or political mis-information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll
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Poll, the pet parrot of Andrew Jackson
See also
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Paul (disambiguation)
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Pohl (disambiguation)
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Pohle (disambiguation)
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Pol (disambiguation)
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Pole (disambiguation)
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Poling (disambiguation)
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Poling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
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Pollard (disambiguation)
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Polly (disambiguation)
