I realize it's a bit of a paranoid idea, and you might want to laugh at these people, but I can't blame two senior citizens for believing that something like that could happen. Hasn't CNN threatened to dox people before? I strongly suspect people are now, more than ever, lying to pollsters, because they see businesses burning on the TV, people getting fired, and they're scared that if they answer the wrong way, someone will come after them.
Can we really say that the media conducting these polls are above that?
The left have made it where people believe they have to lie. We've been moved past even keeping opinions to ourselves. Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones is under attack for not commenting on BLM. If he doesn't publicly support them it's because he is racist and is hiding it.