Unlike an opinion poll, which asks for whom the voter plans to vote, or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks for whom the voter actually voted.
(32- or 64-bit operations are supported equally or better in modern microprocessors.) 65536 is the maximum number of spreadsheet rows supported by Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002 and Excel 2003.Text files that are larger than 65536 rows cannot be imported to these versions of Excel. (Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013 support 1,048,576 rows (220)).
By default each MS Excel sheet has 1048576Rows and 16384 Columns. if you click on the top left if the sheet on the rectangle above row #1 and left of column# A, you will see1048576R x 16384C. This is the default number of rows and columns. It should let you put in more records than 65,000 but trying impring them to same sheet in smaller groups.