Use of public opinion polls
Compiled text through Mar 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Mar 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Latest notice
- SBE-21-17-00004-A · Adopted rule · Aug 30, 2017
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
No candidate, political party or committee shall attempt to promote the success or defeat of a candidate by, directly or indirectly, disclosing or causing to be disclosed, the results of a poll relating to a candidate for such office or position, unless within 48 hours after such disclosure, they provide the following information concerning the poll to the board or officer with whom statements or copies of statements of campaign receipts and expenditures are required to be filed by the candidate to whom such poll relates:
(a)The name of the person, party, or organization that contracted for or who commissioned the poll and/or paid for it.
(b)The name and address of the organization that conducted the poll.
(c)The numerical size of the total poll sample, the geographic area covered by the poll and any special characteristics of the population included in the poll sample.
(d)The exact wording of the questions asked in the poll and the sequence of such questions to the extent results of such questions were disclosed or to the extent such questions were preparatory to the questions asked that were released and could have influenced poll respondents answers to the poll questions released.
(e)The method of polling—whether by personal interview, telephone, mail, or other.
(f)The time period during which the poll was conducted.
(g)The number of persons in the poll sample; the number contacted who responded to each specific question; the number of persons contacted who did not so respond.
(h)The results of the poll relative to the questions required to be disclosed pursuant to subdivision (d) of this section.