A quick count is not an exit poll!

Nov 13, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – A few days ago, I heard a former APNU+AFC official speaking about the 1992 general elections and repeating the familiar allegation that those elections were rigged. In attempting to discredit the findings of the Carter Center, he referred to its quick count as an exit poll, arguing that Guyana does not have exit polls because, as he put it, which Guyanese would tell you how he or she voted?

The argument was revealing, but not for the reason he intended. It demonstrated, what I believe was either a misunderstanding of the methodology employed by the Carter Center or an attempt to confuse two entirely different methods of electoral observation.