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Polls?

Any information on the current polling results from the referendum? Is the referendum expected to succeed? Anything that talks about its current status in public opinion would be a helpful addition to the article. Zaldax (talk) 17:03, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking the same thing. Anything out there? --Lionheart Omega (talk) 17:45, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was curious about it as well, as a newspaper article gave me the impression a vote was held on August 12th. However, Political status of Puerto Rico#2012 plebiscite states that the plan was to have two polls, one about whether or not to change the status (August 2012), and one for what the now status should be (November 2012), but that they are merged into a single referendum to be held in November 2012.

Buut, you guys probably mean gallup polls when I think about it, and yeah, that would be interesting to see. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 00:09, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral method?

It's not entirely clear from the article how the two-stage, single-election plebiscite will work. If the "change the status quo" option fails to get a majority, is there an instant runoff/AV/STV resolution of the second question? First past the post? Including or excluding status quo from the second round? This sounds like it could produce some very odd results if preferences between several options are roughly evenly split, depending on the exact procedure used. 84.203.33.210 (talk) 10:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]