Customers purchase the cookie for the candidate they support and tallies are used to forecast a winner.
[2][3] In the name of fairness and accuracy, cookie polls are only considered legitimate if cookies representing both candidates are sold; bakeries will stop the polling once a supply of any one candidate's cookies are depleted beyond a certain point.
[4] This poll is unscientific and not controlled for any factor beyond consumer habits,[5] but many bakeries across the U.S. claim success at predicting elections for the last several voting cycles,[6][7][8] including one bakery in Ohio that accurately foresaw the last nine elections.
[9] Other bakeries use it as a platform to encourage voter participation.
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