Poll

• Poll, a formal election • Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts • Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions • Polling places or polling station, a.k.a. the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections • Poll, a non-formal election: • Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion • Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations • Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote • Survey (human research) == Agriculture ==

• Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head • Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species • Polling, livestock dehorning ==Arts, entertainment, and media==

• Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s • Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries == Mathematics, science, and technology ==

• poll (Unix), a Unix system call • POLL, DNA polymerase lambda • Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status • Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order == People ==

Given name or middle name • Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal • Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer • Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer Surname • Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer • Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal • George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician • Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee • Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939), German anatomist and geneticist • Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player • Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director • Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer • Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist • Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist • Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author • Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament • Kim Polling (born 1991), Dutch judoka == Places ==

Austria • Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria • Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol Germany • Poll, Cologne, a quarter of Cologne, Germany • Polling, Mühldorf, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria • Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria == Other uses ==

• Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party • Poll, the part of a claw hammer head containing its driving face • Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation • Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking • Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow • Push poll, an interactive marketing technique or political [mis-]information campaign designed to appear as an opinion poll • Poll, the pet parrot of Andrew Jackson == See also ==