
Fake Polls and Election Integrity
Jokes (and incidents) abound featuring dead voters voting, but what about dead pollsters polling? Last Tuesday, election analysis site FiftyPlusOne interviewed an affiliate of SoCal Strategies, a polling outfit that had gained recognition from major news organizations like The New York Times. By Thursday, SoCal Strategies had deactivated its website and social media accounts, and FiftyPlusOne never received the follow-up information for which it had asked. When its polls attracted scrutiny, SoCal Strategies simply went dark.




