[GulliverSwift]

This is a little old, but I thought it was funny.

[advance_copy]

In before large quantities of electric current start flowing.

[cripplecreek]

If they looked they would have found us FReeping polls in favor of Kerry right before the election.

[SmithL]

FReepers only rig online, unofficial polls.

[Cicero]

The difference between FR and DU is that we hit polls out of the goodness of our hearts, in the spirit of voluntarism. A thousand points of light, as the phrase goes.

DUers are dependent on money swilled in by George Soros and other left-wing elitists.

It's just like the polls on election day, where Republican volunteers get out the vote but Democrats buy and bus in the vote.

[nhoward14]

Also looks like conclusive proof that idiot Dems think online polls are the word of God.

[Texas_Jarhead]

I guess my voicing my opinion via online poll is somehow "cheating" or "rigging". I, like most FReepers, submit our vote and move on.

[Responsibility1st]

And don't forget how we FReep exit polls

/sarc

[thoughtomator]

How many people really delete their cookies and vote again and again? And who says they're the only ones doing it? Isn't that a traditional tactic on the Left (only they use real ballot boxes)?

Good Morning, Philadelphia. If a system is flawed (as is most online polling software), then manipulating the flawed system to excess in an overt way is an ethical method of exposing its weaknesses, so that these polls don't gain undue credibility and that the owner of them, if previously unaware, would be no longer.

Compare and contrast this to CNN, which routinely fixes their online polls to 62% left wing answer vs. 38% right wing answer, regardless if a FReep occurs or no. This exposes another type of common flaw in online polling, which is dishonesty by the poll taker.

Just because they've got a poll dialog box doesn't mean the innards work that way. It wouldn't be difficult, for example, to have an online poll discard the vote of anyone who came to their site by way of an FR link.

I think FReeping is healthy in exposing dishonesty in online polling. An honest polling shop would make sure the software worked in a verifiable manner.