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Poll: 71 percent favor drilling ban vote
Posted Jul 19, 2010 by William March
Updated Jul 19, 2010 at 05:17 PM
A poll commissioned by several Florida-based environmental groups and done by a Washington-based nonprofit organization says 71 percent of Florida registered voters favor having a vote on a proposal to ban oil drilling in Florida waters.
The poll also said 50 percent favor banning oil drilling within 10 miles of Florida shores.
The poll was commissioned by Progress Florida, Sea Turtle Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, Florida Wildlife Federation, Hands Across the Sand and Audubon of Florida, and done by ISSI, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit corporation that provides services to other non-profit groups, said Mark Ferrulo of Progress Florida.
The automated-dial poll, in which telephone respondents hear recorded questions and key in their answers, contacted 1,143 registered Florida voters July 15-17, for a error margin estimated by the pollster at 2.8 percent.
Ferrulo said the poll sample was weighted to match the partisan and demographic breakdowns among Florida registered voters, and to be proportional to the numbers of voters in each of the state’s 25 congressional districts.
Gov. Charlie Crist has called the Legislature into special session this week to consider putting a state constitutional amendment on the 2010 ballot to ban oil drilling in near-shore Florida waters, but legislative leaders, who are political opponents of Crist, oppose putting it on the ballot.
In the poll, asked whether they favor holding a vote, 71 percent said yes, 17 percent said no and 10 percent said they weren’t sure.
Asked whether they favor drilling within 10 miles of the coast, 28 percent said yes, 50 precent said no and 21 percent said they were unsure.
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