How might opinion polls negatively affect voter behaviors
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Opinion polls can easily motivate people not to vote. Opinion polls affect negatively voter behaviors. Further more, voters also look at polling results as a way to garner information they need to make up their minds, public opinion polls do more than show how we feel about issues.
Opinion polls need not give a correct picture as people will not always be truthful in saying for whom they voted. An opinion poll can sway neutral voters towards the party that is shown as leading, according to the opinion poll, which may be totally misleading.
Opinion polls of elections are taken from voters, after they cast their vote, to predict the outcome of the election, before declaration of actual result by the Election Commission or the body conducting such an election.