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'''Poll''', '''polled''', or '''polling''' may refer to:
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==Forms of voting and counting==
* Poll, a formal [[election]]
** [[Election verification exit poll]], a survey taken to verify election counts
** Polling, [[voting]] to make decisions or determine opinions
** [[Polling place]]s 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 (fad)|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 (parrot)|Poll]], the pet parrot of [[Andrew Jackson]]
== See also ==
* [[Paul (disambiguation)]]
* [[Pohl (disambiguation)]]
* [[Pohle (disambiguation)]]
* [[Pol (disambiguation)]]
* [[Pole (disambiguation)]]
* [[Poling (disambiguation)]]
** [[Poling (metallurgy)]], removing oxides when refining a metal
* [[Pollard (disambiguation)]]
* [[Polly (disambiguation)]]
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