Might get some honest results from your precinct.
They are not supposed to talk to as many as they can. It’s strictly every Nth person, where N depends on the size of the precinct.
I read through the reports after ‘04, where the exit pollsters figured out that the young kids they hired screwed up the process, esp at larger precincts, and landed up talking mostly to people who were friendly with them (more likely to be Kerry people who wanted to chat w/ students/hippies).
I was armed w/ the facts when having to argue with people who insisted that the exit polls were “right” while the “machines” changed votes to rob the election from President Kerry ...