Poll

Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:

Figurative head counts

Poll, a formal election

Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts

Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions

Polling places or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections

Poll, a non-formal election: Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote Survey (human research)

Agriculture

Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head

Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species

Polling, livestock dehorning

Arts, entertainment, and media

Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s

Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries

Mathematics, science, and technology

poll (Unix), a Unix system call

POLL, DNA polymerase lambda

Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

People

Given name or middle name

Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal

Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer

Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer

Surname

Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer

Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal

George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician

Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee

Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player

Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director

Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer

Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist

Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist

Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author

Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament

Kim Polling (born 1991), Dutch judoka

Places

Austria

Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol

Germany

Poll, Cologne, a quarter of Cologne, Germany

Polling, Mühldorf, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria

Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria

Other uses

Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party

Poll, the part of a claw hammer head containing its driving face

Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation

Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow Push poll, an interactive marketing technique or political [mis-]information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll

See also

Paul (disambiguation) Pohl (disambiguation) Pohle (disambiguation) Pol (disambiguation) Pole (disambiguation) Poling (disambiguation) Poling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal Pollard (disambiguation) Polly (disambiguation)