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Stuffed!

Seems that our poll (see left-hand column) about federal responsiveness to Hurricane Katrina has attracted two people at the extremes, one voting hundreds of times for "inspires confidence," the other voting almost as much for "embarrassing." Given this kind of ballot stuffing (and we know it's most likely two individuals since it all happened in a very short time span), the poll is now meaningless, so we'll be taking it down. We'll have a new poll up in the not-too-distant future. And maybe we'll figure out some way to limit everyone to one vote. You know, when they said "Vote early, vote often," they weren't talking about tp.com.

Erik Hansen posted this on 09/14/05.

Comments

ItÂ´s a pity that these facts happen.

Posted by Felix Gerena at September 14, 2005 3:27 PM

The immediate federal responsiveness was poor it has been front page news for days but let's now concentrate on the great efforts being done by FEMA. My father will be going for 3 months working 70 hour weeks to work in the rebuilding process starting tomorrow. The conditions are poor in the region yet people are going to help rebuild and leaving their familes behind to do so. Let's take time to thank those who are working to help the devastated regions.

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Posted by yang at September 14, 2005 9:12 PM

This is the exact reason why I ignore web polls. There is no control on such things, and I've seen both sides of the political spectrum attempt this kind of gerrymandering by stuffing the ballot box. Until we resolve a better way of "one user one vote," web polls will be useless.

Posted by Keith Stoneman at September 15, 2005 7:50 AM

Liked your site, Yang. Maybe you'll visit here and speak more.

Posted by Noel Guinane at September 15, 2005 8:38 AM

Long time reader and noticed your entry about your online poll.

I can write you a poll that can only be voted on once, or at least it would require GREAT difficulty to bypass, which most people are not interested in.

Contact me if you are interested.

Posted by Frank WIles at September 15, 2005 12:38 PM

Geez, Erik, NOW you tell us the rules. Actually I only voted once - and my other multiple personalities abstained (I think).

Posted by John O'Leary at September 15, 2005 10:11 PM