People in the thread seem to not know what the word 'poll' means. When you go to vote you go to your 'polling location'. The word Poll can refer to unofficial 'opinion polls' and 'exit polls' as well as 'official polls'. Opinion pools are when people ask a bunch of folks how they plan to vote in an attempt to predict the election. When people ask folks how they voted after the fact it is an attempt to root out voter fraud (if everyone says they voted for A but the election is called for B then you can suspect somersetting fishy happened) and these are called 'exit polls'. When people count votes and report the numbers this is the official poll results. The word poll simply means 'to collect the opinion'