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To: RightWingNilla
*****165.76.125.*** - Voted for Creation 990 times.*****

Thats a bit obsessive.

Dont you have to restart explorer and empty offline content/cookies to revote?

In that particular poll, there was nothing to prevent "Chicago voting" -- but it was detectable, by looking at the log and viewing the IP addresses of the people who voted. That's how the two mendacious anti-Evos were caught.

One can only hope that the current poll ALSO logs IP addresses, and that FR Management will similarly announced any instances of over-voting, and correct the results at the end of the poll.

149 posted on 09/23/2006 7:38:12 AM PDT by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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To: longshadow
One can only hope that the current poll ALSO logs IP addresses, and that FR Management will similarly announced any instances of over-voting, and correct the results at the end of the poll.

The poll results shown on your "My Comments" page are a bit misleading, because they're a blend of the votes of both registered freepers and others. When you hit the "Details" button you get a different picture.

It's very interesting that there is a significant variation between the voting of registered freepers and others. Close to one-third of registered freepers -- who can only vote once -- are voting "No" (don't teach creationism/ID in science class). The voting for the past 12 hours has been roughly 55% or 56% "Yes" and 32% or 33% "No." About 10% are undecided or pass.

But among non-freepers, who may have less stringent controls on the number of votes they cast, it's different. Over 63% of those votes are "Yes" and only 6% are undecided or pass. That's a strange pattern.

Why are the non-freepers apparently so much more committed to the "Yes" vote (teach creationism/ID in science class), and far less undecided than registered freepers? I leave it to the readers to try to puzzle it out. Presumably, JR knows perfectly well how these polls work and is quite adept at interpreting the results.

151 posted on 09/23/2006 8:03:04 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Science-denial is not conservative. It's reality-denial and it's unhealthy.)
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To: longshadow
In that particular poll, there was nothing to prevent "Chicago voting"

LOL. But still, some creatinoid sat there and clicked the same button 900 times. I think most well adjusted people could find something else better to do with their time.

155 posted on 09/23/2006 8:54:26 AM PDT by RightWingNilla
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