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Hamptons burglars who posed as pollsters busted

Two Long Island burglars who posed as political pollsters will now be taking a survey of prison life, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

The phony poll takers, Charles Durant, 32, and partner Chris Williams, 27, were sentenced on Friday to 10 and seven years, respectively, for a string of seven burglaries in the Hamptons in May 2011.

The duo’s modus operandi was to go door to door and pretend to be conducting a survey about Osama bin Laden or whether Donald Trump should run for president.

If no one answered the door, the duo would break in and steal jewelry, gold and electronic devices.

The ruse was exposed when cops got a call about two suspicious men on bikes ringing doorbells in East Hampton.

When they were questioned by police, they claimed to be conducting a survey. But a computer check revealed both as career criminals on parole. Some of the loot was found in their possession, as well as in pawn shops.

Durant had served time for burglary, assault and auto theft and was paroled in November 2010, and Williams served about three years for attempted robbery and had been on parole since 2010, according to the Suffolk DA’s Office.