An
entrance poll is a
poll that is taken before voters have cast their
votes at the
polling stations. It is akin to an
opinion poll in the sense that it asks who the voter plans to vote for or some similar set of questions. The possibility that the prospective voter might change his mind after the poll is very small compared to that of an opinion poll, therefore the
margin of error of an entrance poll is expected to be lower than that of an opinion poll. However, the
methodology of conducting an entrance poll is closer to that of an
exit poll, where actual voters are being queried as opposed to potential voters in an opinion poll.