# Poll

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'''Poll''', '''polled''', or '''polling''' may refer to:

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==Forms of voting and counting==
* Poll, a formal [election](/source/election)
** [Election verification exit poll](/source/Election_verification_exit_poll), a survey taken to verify election counts
** Polling, [voting](/source/voting) to make decisions or determine opinions
** [Polling place](/source/Polling_place)s or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections

* Poll, a non-formal [election](/source/election):
** [Opinion poll](/source/Opinion_poll), a survey of public opinion
** [Exit poll](/source/Exit_poll), a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
** [Straw poll](/source/Straw_poll), an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
** [Survey (human research)](/source/Survey_(human_research))

== Agriculture ==
* [Poll (livestock)](/source/Poll_(livestock)), the top of an animal's head
* [Polled livestock](/source/Polled_livestock), hornless livestock of normally horned species
* Polling, [livestock dehorning](/source/livestock_dehorning)

==Arts, entertainment, and media==
* [Poll (band)](/source/Poll_(band)), a Greek pop group of the 1970s
* ''Poll'', the German title for the 2010 film ''[The Poll Diaries](/source/The_Poll_Diaries)''

== Mathematics, science, and technology ==
* [poll (Unix)](/source/poll_(Unix)), a Unix system call
*[POLL](/source/POLL), DNA polymerase lambda
* [Polling (computer science)](/source/Polling_(computer_science)), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status
* [Polling system](/source/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](/source/Silvia_Poll_Ahrens) (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal
* [Poll Ashokanand](/source/Poll_Ashokanand) (born 1940), Indian former cricketer
* [Poll Shyamsunder](/source/Poll_Shyamsunder) (1924–1988), Indian cricketer

===Surname===
* [Brian Poll](/source/Brian_Poll) (1941–1999), English cricketer
* [Claudia Poll](/source/Claudia_Poll) (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
* [George St Poll](/source/George_St_Poll) (died 1550s), an English politician
* [Graham Poll](/source/Graham_Poll) (born 1963), British referee
* [Heinrich Wilhelm Poll](/source/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Poll) (1877–1939), German anatomist and geneticist
* [Jana Franziska Poll](/source/Jana_Franziska_Poll) (born 1988), German volleyball player
* [Jon Poll](/source/Jon_Poll) (born 1958), American film director
* [Martin Poll](/source/Martin_Poll) (1922–2012), American film and television producer
* [Max Poll](/source/Max_Poll) (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist
* [Mihkel Poll](/source/Mihkel_Poll) (born 1986), Estonian pianist
* [Richard D. Poll](/source/Richard_D._Poll) (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author
* [Thomas St Poll](/source/Thomas_St_Poll) (died 1582), member of Parliament
* [Kim Polling](/source/Kim_Polling) (born 1991), Dutch judoka

== Places ==
=== Austria ===
* [Polling im Innkreis](/source/Polling_im_Innkreis), a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria
* [Polling in Tirol](/source/Polling_in_Tirol), a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol

=== Germany ===
* [Poll, Cologne](/source/Poll%2C_Cologne), a quarter of Cologne, Germany
* [Polling, Mühldorf](/source/Polling%2C_M%C3%BChldorf), a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria
* [Polling, Weilheim-Schongau](/source/Polling%2C_Weilheim-Schongau), a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria

== Other uses ==
*[Deed poll](/source/Deed_poll), a legal document binding only to a single person or party
* Poll, the part of a [claw hammer](/source/claw_hammer) head containing its driving face
* [Poll tax (disambiguation)](/source/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](/source/planking_(fad))
* Polling or [pollarding](/source/pollarding), cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
* [Push poll](/source/Push_poll), an interactive marketing technique or political [mis-]information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll
* [Poll](/source/Poll_(parrot)), the pet parrot of [Andrew Jackson](/source/Andrew_Jackson)

== See also ==
* [Paul (disambiguation)](/source/Paul_(disambiguation))
* [Pohl (disambiguation)](/source/Pohl_(disambiguation))
* [Pohle (disambiguation)](/source/Pohle_(disambiguation))
* [Pol (disambiguation)](/source/Pol_(disambiguation))
* [Pole (disambiguation)](/source/Pole_(disambiguation))
* [Poling (disambiguation)](/source/Poling_(disambiguation))
** [Poling (metallurgy)](/source/Poling_(metallurgy)), removing oxides when refining a metal
* [Pollard (disambiguation)](/source/Pollard_(disambiguation))
* [Polly (disambiguation)](/source/Polly_(disambiguation))

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