The same applies to all online polls, petitions etc. Most politicians (or
their advisers) know this and ignore them. It is just about impossible to
make a foolproof online poll without issuing some form of registration card
- and in any case since the sample is non-random the results - even with no
cheating - are meaningless. Only those with strong views vote - most people
can't be bothered.
On 13 January 2011 16:47, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> It is amazingly easy in this poll to vote multiple times. You just have to
> vote, open your browser's preferences, then remove the "The Age" cookie, go
> back to the voting page, vote, then remove the cookie, ad infinitum. You
> could even write a script to do it all for you. The results of the poll are
> therefore worthless, as it is so easily tampered with.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
>
> On 13/01/2011, at 4:21 PM, Debbie Lustig wrote:
>
>
> Today's Age newspaper has an online poll asking:
> Do you believe the duck season should return to a full 12 weeks?
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/polls/victoria/duck-season/20110112-19o1j.html
>
> Please vote 'NO'. The poll closes at 6 pm.
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