Good thing we were able to bag almost our limit before the Warden showed up!
Almost 300 more votes have come in. Prior FR polls typically receive around 6,000 votes before they're ended. This one now has 3,942 votes, almost two-thirds complete.
Up to now I've been ignoring un-registered voters because we know that freepers can only vote once. Also, the un-registered voters seem remarkably opinionated, because their rate of "undecided" or "pass" votes is about half that of freepers. But up to last night, the difference in decisiveness showed up almost entirely in their percentage of "Yes" votes.
That trend now seems to have reversed itself. What may have been freeping in one direction now seems to be going in the opposite direction. So it looks like this factor is canceling itself out as the votes keep piling up. At this point, looking at the composite vote (both freepers and non-freepers) seems the way to go. That's the figure that Jim puts up on your "My Comments" page, and it appears that despite my earlier skepticism, Jim knows just what he's doing. I should have known that.
Still, the important votes are from voters who have expressed an opinion on the poll question, so I'm ignoring all votes for "undecided" or "pass." Those with an opinion have voted as follows:
Yes (put creationism in science class) 2,291 votesPercentage voting "No" is 36.3%
No (keep creationism out of science class) 1,304 votes
Total votes (excluding "undecided" or "pass") 3,595