Flagging A Poll

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A confidential source tipped me off on a poll that seems to be responding – or to be more precise – not responding to negative votes. No matter how many “no” votes are entered, it seems stuck at 90 – 10 in favour
It’s currently hosted at the website of the Calvert government’s insipid “Raise A Flag” advertising campaign for a Saskatchewan Energy Accord. (Speaking of which – Lorne, you missed our chance. That brass ring breezed past your nose this spring while you were busy posing with and throwing your support behind the “Canadians don’t want an election now wait for Gomery while we shovel out the cash” Liberals. )
Moron.
Anyway, it hardly matters what the poll results are – Calvert has outlived his usefulness as far as Martin and Goodale are concerned. So go here and vote NO.
With the traffic that travels through here, a burst of SDA voting should swing that ratio very quickly.
I don’t want any whining about “cheating”. This is a technical experiment to establish whether this poll – paid for by Saskatchewan taxpayers – is rigged. We should know within a few hours.
(PS – you’re welcome to record your votes in the comments, for the purpose of getting a rough idea of how many we’ve cast).
Update: From the comments;
Anonalogue;

The poll appears to be a module of a content management system called Mercury CMS from a Regina company TMC. From the website:
Polling Module
“Get realtime data on the attitudes, opinions, and thoughts of your website visitors. Create Opinion Polls fast and easy using the Mercury CMS Poll Admin Tools. View your Poll results as they are calculated and respond quickly to make changes.”
http://mercury-cms.com/index.cfm?page=4

David Simpson pulled up the source code.

I just checked the source code for the results page and the 90% Yes and 10% No are hard coded into the page. Vote all you want, it won’t change.

I’ve saved a copy and a screenshot.
Wednesday update: The “Raise a flag” poll has been lowered down the pole. Something tells me we haven’t heard the last of this…

158 Replies to “Flagging A Poll”

  1. Kate,
    I just voted and I will be watching with interest. I think you caught a rat in your trap here.
    You’re so cool.
    Duke

  3. I just voted and the numbers stick. LOL. Thanks for that 30 seconds of fun I needed that.

  6. Hmmmm – you would think that 20 ‘no’ votes would change the outcome. Maybe I’ll do another 10 – that will work – won’t it?

  7. Same here.   90/10 “Yes/No” split after I voted.
    Heh.  Probably too lazy/stupid to actually tabulate running totals from the form they created — assuming the form’s actually submitting votes anywhere in the first place, that is.
    Anybody sent an e-mail to the sysadmin of the site asking “What gives?” yet?

  8. I just voted it is still at 90 – 10 God don’t you just hate it when “your caught” playing the game!
    If they are going to waste the time to run a fixed poll at least they could change the numbers a little. Belinda got caught on that one!
    Good on you Kate!
    Mary

  11. Garth – my source gave me details on earlier voting experiments – the poll seemed to respond as expected. Then, the 90- 10 result came up and it’s not changed since.

  26. There is an option to contact them through an Email form .. .. I took the liberty of poining out that we were on to their lying sum bag trick using that very form. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if the Email goes into a vortex.
    Cheers,

  28. Dam I just was able to vote twice….. and it’s still 90% to 10% no.
    Sorry Kate Calvert is not a Moron, just a big used and abused Liberal whore.

  32. just voted still 90 10, ya know if they were actually tabulating votes you’s think it would say something like 91.5 – 9.5, running up or down from that set of numbers, also it would also have a tally of how many voters have logged their vote, you know 90/10 with ten recorded voters who were all involved in the creation of this web poll.
    Daryl

  33. BTW I just read the raise a flag campaign, yes it’s a waste of taxpayers dollars since if the sask gov’t actually meant a bit of what they talk about in the campaign they would’t have a bogus poll on their website and they’d just go for the JUGULAR while the paul martin liberals were down instead of pretending to ask Saskatchewanians about an issue that any kindergartener can determine is profoundly unfair, that being transfer payments. I have long beleived that the whole principle of transfer payments have always been a may for our federal government to embezzle taxpayer dollars away from the public while providing spurious make work project civil service jobs to captive voters. All the while beguiling the weak of mind and lazy, with the appearance of activity.
    or am I just an ebittered gen-Xer?
    Daryl

  38. Yup, another “No” vote, still 90/10.
    This website must run by the same chucklehead at the NDP’s website who spiked the “leader who’s done most for students” poll a little while ago after Stephen Harper got way out in front.

  42. Internet fraud = RCMP investigation.
    .
    Click on the link and see what happens. Another rigged poll !

  45. oops. forgot html code works here.
    .
    click on the “Email Ralph Goodale” link and see what’s up.

  48. Mmmmm, 3 or 4 votes and as you predicted 90/10.
    Where did Calvert get the name of this polling outfit from Lieberals????

  49. Voted no
    Still at 90 / 10
    Looks like Ontario’s fearless liar, Dalton McG, has given them some lessons!

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