Online vote rigging in Republican poll

[RainDog]

I saw this poll last night, and the way the possible choices were worded was already rigged to get a response they wanted. then, when they still couldn't control what people thought, apparently they had to resort to rigging the vote. Sort of like 2000. unfortunately, what we are looking at in 2004...

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

Poll Rigging?

Seraphiel writes in:

I noticed something interesting about that poll... I was refreshing the page a few times and noticed that the second response, the one they "wanted," was inreasing abnormally.()...They simply switched which item each button votes for, so all the votes for the "wrong" answer end up being for the one they want.

How, er, responsible of our elected representatives.

Here's the poll in question.

UPDATE from seraphiel:

Some updates about this, since I dunno if you were following the thread. I did make an error copying and pasting it, so it ended up showing something much worse than what I actually meant to show. But they went in after that and did what I had accidentally shown:

(more imput/comments)
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Seraphiel writes They simply switched which item each button votes for, so all the votes for the "wrong" answer end up being for the one they want.

It's actually more then that. They rigged the answers already given.

(now) the poll results are at zero.... I hope no one tipped off them that Atrios had linked their website!

[MrBenchley]

1. Frist did the same thing earlier this year

he put a poll on his website to drum up support for the GOP's Mediocare plan....and whne the results didn't come out the way he wanted, he SWITCHED the choices....so that those who had voted no were now voting yes.