POLL MANIPULATIONS

This blog and likewise the reader polls are provided to promote discussion on topics important to Havre and the surrounding community. Recently we ran two reader polls. In the first we asked - Do you agree with the Hill County Commissioners decision to cut the County Superintendent’s position to half time? Interestingly, at least for the first few days the votes remained pretty even at about 50% for and 50% against the Commissioners decision. Beginning Sunday afternoon we at the Corrector noticed that there were allot of votes being cast and very few were against the Commissioners decision until the poll totals showed that over 75% just loved the axing of Isbells position to half-time.


Not surprisingly, the second poll that asked which Incumbent candidate you would most like to see defeated was running steadily at 50% of those voting wishing to see Commissioner Mike Anderson defeated and about 5% saying they loved all the candidates listed and would vote to retain them all no matter who ran against them. Beginning Sunday until we removed the polls, votes were being cast rapidly manipulating the polls to show 200 people having cast a vote. We have discovered that if you clear your cache on your computer a person can vote again. We estimate that about 80 fictitious votes were cast Monday evening alone judging by the lower numbers showing on our blog visitor counter compared to the increase in poll voters.

Now it takes some time to vote – clear your cache of cookies - vote again – again clear - and on and on 80 plus times plus whatever votes were cast Sunday before we realized what was happening. Most of these votes were cast for retaining all the incumbent Democrats to their respective Courthouse offices.

The question that came to mind with those of us at the Havre Daily Corrector was that if local Democrats are so afraid and concerned with silly poll votes cast on a blog designed to illicit discussion to cause one or more of them to be this dishonest with the people they represent, Why would we want to vote to retain any of them? Think about the amount of time and energy these people expended to distort the opinions of our readers.

Yes again say, THROW ALL THE BUMS OUT!   On a positive note at least our readers now know the lengths the ACORN affiliated local Democrat Machine will go to manipulate the vote.  And YES, our resident Democrat blogger is embarrassed that she is affiliated with that bunch of dishonest jerks.