Vote Early, Vote Often.

The Observer is running an entirely unscientific poll (Lib Dems are at 48% as I write, chortle chortle) with the following advice:

Top tip from the Observer Blog gerrymandering consultant: The
poll-u-like will leave a cookie in your browser. If you delete it you
can vote more frequently for extra bonus ballot-stuffing effect.

May I suggest multiple and repeated visits to the site? My advice? Vote Tory so we can see Polly’s head explode at the results.

Update: From the comments Andy passes on this piece of advice:
Did you know that if you click the "submit" button repeatedly (ie before it has time to clear the page) with cookies disabled, it seems to count every click as a vote. Current score (as at 0938): Lab 13% Con 40% LD 29% Others 7% Not voting 3% SNP 0% Plaid 4% 🙂
And from somone not a million miles removed from the originators of this poll, a comment on my advice to vote Tory so as to make Polly Toynbee’s head explode:
Fair enough. It’s a noble goal.

5 responses

  1. Polly is Guardian. We are Observer – different paper, different politics. (OK, not *that* different, but different.) Believe me.

  2. Did you know that if you click the “submit” button repeatedly (ie before it has time to clear the page) with cookies disabled, it seems to count every click as a vote.
    Current score (as at 0938):
    Lab 13%
    Con 40%
    LD 29%
    Others 7%
    Not voting 3%
    SNP 0%
    Plaid 4%
    🙂

  3. dsquared Avatar
    dsquared

    You realise that by helping to create a poll showing a big lead for the Tories which will be published to Observer readers, you are basically doing the work of Labour’s get-out-the-vote campaign? Care to guess which prominent female journalist with the initials “P.T.” has been pushing the line that the Tories are stronger than their (proper) poll showing suggests and thus that Labour supporters should not protest-vote?

  4. Tories should be pressing the Labour button surely?

  5. Yeah but if Tories see Labour with an unassailable lead maybe they will give and and not bother to vote?
    Damn pyschology

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