Voice mystery: Pollster Kos Samaras says one side of the referendum went MISSING on the day it mattered the most

Leading Australian pollster Kos Samaras claims No campaigners were absent from polling stations on the day of the Voice referendum.

Mr Samaras tweeted on Saturday that Yes campaigners far outnumbered No supporters outside polling stations on Saturday.

He believed a failed No vote could see undecided voters swing to a Yes vote.

“The lack of No volunteers at the polls is great,” he wrote.

“This was not something in 1999. The presence at the polling stations is more important than the general election.

“Yes, volunteers will be converting undecided voters all day long in the places Jo has arrogantly abandoned.”

Some commenters under the post of Mr. Samaras agreed that the No campaign was lacking, while others were not convinced that voters’ minds could be easily changed.

“In the whole of Kooyong, only one No volunteers per booth, while Yes has a minimum of seven to eight even in small booths,” wrote one.

“Two lonely No guys in my cabin in Melbourne, surrounded by lots of enthusiastic Yes volunteers. No pamphlets, no eye contact, no engagement,” said another.

“I don’t think so, one thing was very clear at our local booth, people weren’t willing to take a (pamphlet) from either the Yes or No volunteers,” wrote a third.

‘Conversion? O puleeeze! By the time people go to the polls, they’ve made up their minds!”, wrote another.

Mr Samaras will join the ABC’s election coverage with the broadcaster’s special segment starting at 5.30pm AEDT.

Despite the reported low number of No volunteers, the exit poll shows that voters in a key state are still in favor of No.

In order for recognition of Indigenous Australians to be added to the Constitution, the referendum must pass the double majority test.

That means 50 per cent of voters would have to vote Yes, as would a majority of voters in four of the six states – New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.

South Australia’s relatively small population, but equal weight as a state, made its votes particularly valuable.

However, of the 115 voters in the Boothby electorate – 58 recorded a No vote while 56 voted Yes.

The close numbers give a majority of 50.8 percent No versus 49.2 percent for Yes.

Helen Carpentieri, a 60-year-old woman who voted at Seacliff Uniting Church, said uncertainty about how the Voice would work prompted her to vote No.

“I don’t think it’s explained much,” she said.

“We don’t know what he would do.”

Madellen Dawson, who voted in Plympton-Glenelg RSL, believed other issues such as cost of living pressures were ‘much more important’.

“It (the Voice) will create a division that is unnecessary,” she said.

‘More division than unity’.

Leigh Harris, 59, said she believed Indigenous elders opposed the Voice after she cast her No vote at the Kauri Community and Sports Centre.

“From everything I’ve seen, seniors don’t want it,” she said.