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How robust are methodologies deployed to conduct exit polls?

Most agencies are silent on quality of their exit polls

Rudra exit poll: 30 of 48 seats for MVA in Maharashtra, Mahayuti below 15

As per the said exit-poll, Shiv Sena (UBT) will be winning the most seats at 14, followed by Congress with 12 seats, and both the NCP-SP and BJP getting 8 seats each; DB Live, a digital channel of the Deshbandhu newspaper, predicts 28-30 seats for MVA

Hasty exit poll conducted during the seventh phase of voting in Bengal

National News Channels gave major seats share to NDA whereas Bengal’s local channel predicts victory of India bloc in Bengal with 22-24 seats

FactChecked: 2024 Lok Sabha exit polls reveal conflicting predictions

Shashi Tharoor terms exit polls as unscientific

Why Indian exit polls are often biased and favour the ruling party

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EVMs thrown in pond by mob during final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal

West Bengal’s polls on the final day of voting sees mob violence as EVMs and VVPATs thrown away in water. The state’s CEO says that fresh EVMs were being organised.

India’s Sixth Phase of elections marked by missing voters and discrimination: Independent Election Observers (IEO)

Interim report of the Citizens Watch process in the national Capital city

Elections Stories I missed in the newspapers that I buy

In his priceless ruminations throughout the 18th Lok Sabha polls the senior journalist brings us to us the shadows and silences by the “commercial” (“mainstream”) media during the coverage of the recent elections

Former Justice KM Joseph: ECI doing the greatest disservice to the constitution and the founding fathers by not taking action against those seeking vote...

In his speech, Justice Joseph speaks on the importance of a free media and an impartial ECI to maintain the values enshrined in our Preamble and the Constitution

Bihar: RJD’s petition booth capturing and rigging at Munger dismissed by SC

The Supreme Court has directed RJD to take the matter up with the Patna High Court after RJD’s Anita Kumari filed her petition claiming that Bihar’s Munger has witnessed bogus voting, booth capturing, and prevention of backward castes from voting.

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