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What factors influence Palestinian pollsters?

Several question marks hover around Palestinian polling centers, some of which are funded by foreign parties with certain political agendas.
Election officials count ballots after the polls closed for municipal elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Hebron October 20, 2012. Palestinians voted in local elections in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Saturday, their first vote for six years and one with little choice, out of step with democratic revolutions elsewhere in the Arab world. The results were expected to largely reaffirm the Western-backed, mainly secular Fatah party, which runs a de facto government in the slivers of land
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A panoply of polling centers operate in Palestinian territories with the aim of monitoring economic and political issues. Although their survey results can be compelling, they can also be curious and sometimes corrupt.

Some of the many centers include the State Information Service, the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), the Panorama Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development, the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN) and the Center for Development Studies at the Birzeit University.

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