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Vancouver Sun's Polls Manipulated

01/30/09

12:56:50 pm, by NicS, 249 words

Categories: BC Politics, Transportation, Humour, P3's

Vancouver Sun's Polls Manipulated

I picked up on some comments online yesterday and today from the same person on the Vancouver Sun's polls. They are self explanatory.

Todays comments:

There is another poll in the Vancouver Sun. The description says "Do infrastructure projects built through public-private partnerships provide taxpayers a better deal than public-sector procurement?" the title says
"Details needed, please, before BC commits tax dollars to finance ..".

At this point yes is 33 and no is 77.

I voted at this point and managed to manipulate the poll to 13% yes and 87% no in the space of 5 minutes.

Yesterdays comments:

For the January 29, 2009 poll something bizarre seems to have happened.

"Do you support British Columbia's decision to provide one third of the financing needed for the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge and expansion of Highway 1?"

I notice the results from this poll have disappeared. I think this poll was compromised some how, with electronic voting. I watched it pretty closely all day. From 10:00 am to about 4:30 pm it went from 39% no to 75% no at a very steady pace. Then from 4:30 to about 6:30 it went to 75% yes, very rapidly. Around 7:30 I watched for awhile and the no side would drop as much as 2 percentage points in a matter of a few seconds. I did vote at that time and noticed that my vote changed the percentage about 0.05 approximately, so a 2 percent change in seconds would have been a lot.

Would be interesting to know what happened. If you are curious too, contact the Vancouver Sun.

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