Regulación electoral de los sondeos a pie de urna en España : asignaturas pendientes y obsolescencia ante las nuevas formas de comunicación = Electoral regulation of exit polls in Spain : unfinished topics and obsolescence in the face of new forms of communication

Abstract

In European countries we have witnessed leakage of partial data in the latest elections during Election Day through social networks. The incorporation of new technologies in the counting process and the introduction of electronic voting cast doubts about the continuation of the exit polls due to the reduced time lag between the publication of electoral forecasts and the first data of votes counted. These new challenges and old outstanding issues on election polls are analyzed from the Spanish viewpoint.