Marriage poll, part 2

[crschmidt]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/griffen/667656.html

It's a major scam. They're removing votes that don't agree. We need help now more than ever - vote early, vote often. If someone's going to scam us, we need to show them who's boss.

http://peanut.sytes.net/marriagepoll.txt

Stats updated every five minutes. (If the file starts getting huge, I'll cut the top off and save it.)

Fastest google time ever, for me: crawler9.googlebot.com - - [17/Dec/2003:22:54:43 -0600] "GET /marriagepoll.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 2071 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

Apparently someone has been linking ;)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's a major scam. They're removing votes that don't agree.

Ahhh, the cry of someone who simply can't believe that other people don't see their point or share their morals.

Alternative explanation: perhaps, despite how you and your friends feel, gay marriage is seen in a negative light by most people. I live in a fairly liberal state/community and recent poll results indicated that, at best, a slight majority of people interviewed were indifferent towards gay marriage, with the remaining people being negative.

Oftentimes people will say the politically correct thing in public (i.e. announce support for gay marriage) but do the opposite in the voting booth.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

Actually, not at all. I have no problem with voting the other way, but if you read the entry that was linked in the post, you would see that there was a period of time when the number of votes for the pro-homosexual marriage point of view actually went down, by over 3000.

I have no problem with losing a fair vote. I understand that a large number of people in this country feel that homosexual marriage is a wrong thing, as are civil unions that offer the same benefits. Personally, I disagree with those people, but that does not mean that they are not allowed to have those opinions.

However, by deleting votes, they are denying the rights of people to have those opijnions. By saying "your voice doesn't really matter" they're taking away the right to voice our opinions, then they plan to use these results as a voice in congress.

That is censoring, and it's certainly not a fair point.

Their explanation that the votes were removed because they were sent by a supporter who wrote a program to make them is a valid one - although personally, I'd like to see proof. However, they have since corrected the problems that allow for this kind of matching of the votes, so any further claims of that nature will be highly unbelievable.

I think the people voting have spoken for themselves.