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Duck shooting poll

To: 'Carl Clifford' <>, 'Debbie Lustig' <>
Subject: Duck shooting poll
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:06:27 +1100
Let's not start this discussion again. Do you recall the similar poll a year 
ago, when we also discussed possible rigging of it? In that poll, there were 
10s of thousands of votes cast both in favour and against. Either both sides 
got themselves incredibly well organised, or someone on each side was rigging 
it.

Several of us received vaguely threatening emails from a hunter who had seen 
the discussion in the archives.

At least this one is close, and there are reasonable nubers of votes. Just vote 
and forget it.

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
> Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 4:48 PM
> To: Debbie Lustig
> Cc: birding-aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Duck shooting poll
>
> 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/20110112-1
> 9o1j.html
>
> Please vote 'NO'. The poll closes at 6 pm.                    
>
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