Verba, nonetheless, insists that they can
promote democracy. Consider, Verba tells us, the difference between elections
and surveys. Both are means of expressing the popular will. In elections,
people vote and the most popular candidate wins. In polls, people express
their will by answering questions administered in the survey; the results are
tabulated and the most popular response is noted as such. In elections,
however, an unrepresentative sample participates