The most common examples of open-access polls ask people to phone a number, click a voting option on a website, or return a coupon cut from a newspaper.
[1][2] By contrast, scientific opinion polls taken by George Gallup correctly showed a clear lead for Roosevelt, albeit still noticeably lower than what he achieved.
An online poll is a survey in which participants communicate responses via the Internet, typically by completing a questionnaire in a web page.
[4][5] Some others express the hope that careful choice of a panel of possible respondents may allow online polling to become a useful tool of analysis, but feel that this is rarely the case.
He used the term in British newspaper The Independent on July 23, 1995 to show how easy it was to rig a phone-in poll by voting nine times.