Entrance poll

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An entrance poll is a poll of voters taken before they have cast their votes at the polling stations. It is akin to an opinion poll in the sense that it asks who the voter plans to vote for or some similar set of questions (although the possibility of the prospective voter changing his/her mind at that moment is very little compared to an opinion poll), but its methodology of conducting the poll is closer to that of an exit poll, where actual voters are being queried as opposed to potential voters in an opinion poll. Entrance poll result estimates can be obtained very quickly as people can be interviewed earlier and more quickly, as opposed to exit polls. However, these polls are possibly subject to higher margins of errors compared to exit polls as early voters are probably given an even higher preference than in exit polls.