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Sort of, but if people lie predictably you can still poll accurately (or at least build accurate models from your polls).

Without coordination a bunch of independent actors are generally predictable, because any random choice they makes averages out to the mean choice. With coordination the pollsters should be capable of finding out about it too.

So I think lying to polls only works while it's still rare enough (in terms of # of elections that it happens in) that the pollsters aren't accounting for it.




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