Quick Count is a method for verification of election

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

 results by projecting them from a sample of the polling

Polling station

A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections.Since elections generally take place over a one- or two-day span on a periodic basis, often annual or longer, polling places are often located in facilities used for other purposes, such as schools, churches, sports...

 stations. Different than the exit poll

Exit poll

An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. Unlike an opinion poll, which asks whom the voter plans to vote for or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks whom the voter actually voted for. A similar poll conducted before actual...

, voters are not asked who they voted for, projection of results is based on official results of the polling station. Parallel vote tabulation

Parallel vote tabulation

The Parallel Vote Tabulation is an election observation methodology that is employed for independent verification of election results. It involves observation of the voting and counting of ballots at the polling stations, collection of official polling station results and independent tabulation...

is similar to quick count, but uses whole data instead of samples.

External links

• The Quick Count and Election Observation, An NDI Guide for Civic Organizations and Political Parties