June 15, 2003
Just practicing for 2004, I guess.
(Screenshot here.) [11:48 PM]
Your vote still hasn't been counted and mine wasn't either. 1146 people seem to think that states should be allowed in people's bedrooms. It just keeps getting scarier.
Heh, I just voted 'No' also and was told the count was: Yes - 1032, No - 0.
CNN I expect refuses to accept screenshots as evidence of how you voted, because it could be farked, er faked. How conveeeeenient... ;-)
1167 to 0.
What an . . . interesting . . . running count we're getting in these comments.
The poll is just counting every vote as "yes," either through misprogramming or some more sinister motive, depending on your level of cynicism. In the spirit of scientific inquiry, I went and viewed the results, which were 1598 to 0. I then voted "no" (which I would have anyway), and then results came up as 1599 to 0. Either very bad programming or the sort of stellar research one can expect from the American Family Association.
Now 1656 to 0.
I presume it's a programming glitch, but it's really aggravating nonetheless.
I got 1732 yes and 0 no. And not only did I vote no, I suspect that even in 1732 most people would have voted no.
Now this is interesting: since I had two browsers open I decided to try it in the other browser (again voting no, of course), and this time the pop-up box says "Yes 12%, No 88%". Reversed results, but no vote totals, just percentages!
Then I hit "refresh" just to see what would happen and this time I got the vote totals as well as the bar graph (graph won't cut-and-paste, of course):
Yes 12% 94 votes
No 88% 709 votes
Total: 803 votes
Maybe they realized there was a problem and started over.
OK everyone: vote again. Vote early, vote often!
The glitch seems to have been fixed; I'm seeing results of 61 (12%) Yes to 454 (88%) No. 1300+ votes seem to have gone away since Andy's figures.
But I'm in no position to throw the first stone, bug-wise. Nice to see that CNN.com has debuggers on call at this hour.
They must have felt the heat. The count is now Yes: 191; No: 1277.
Looks like at least some of the votes have been lost.
What's all this obsession with recounts? Couldn't people have been satisfied by the initial results?
Bunch a unlicensed-sex-advocating crybabies, that's what you all are!
Perhaps we're seeing the test run of the new electronic voting machines.
Right now, the results are showing 12% to 88%, with 730 votes for and 5565 against.
But of course such things are subject to change without notice.*
(* Number-Crunching by Arthur Anderson Accounting, "The Numbers You Want, WHEN You Want!")
What kind of government regulations on sex?
Mandated couplings, at least once a week? Government sponsored matching service for singles?
I'm feeling kinda...patriotic.
I'll go away now.
Hunter Thompson said it best: there is no paranoia----only people who are uninformed!
>Perhaps we're seeing the test run of the new electronic voting machines
Hey, I was going to say that!
PDM skrev:
Hunter Thompson said it best: there is no paranoia----only people who are uninformed!
I thought it was William S. Burroughs who said "A paranoid is someone who knows a little bit of what's going on."
Tonight's quickvote is "Do you think the war in Iraq is over?"
So far it's 83% "no."
I wish they had made the question: "Should oral sex be banned?"
No one who votes yes to this question thinks that a state regulation would apply to what she does.
My nomination for the next question:
"What Mission was Accomplished when the President made his carrier landing?"
A. Removing weapons of mass destruction from Iraq.
B. Securing Iraq under American control.
C. The restoration of civil order to Iraq.
D. Ending Saddam Hussin's control over Iraq.
PG, The correct answer is:
E. Starting the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign
Kip, many of us certainly wish he'd get stuffed.
He already is, Xopher.
Mostly, anyhow:
There's that place where Karl Rove sticks his hand in to make Dubya's mouth move.
Hard-Hitting Moderator: Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
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