Vote Early, Vote Often

[Update: The PBS NOW program has just fixed the flaw in their online poll with this just-added statement: "Your first vote for this poll has been registered. Any subsequent vote will not be counted. This is not a scientific poll." But for hours, it was possible for one person to cast unlimited numbers of votes, making this poll completely inaccurate and tainted.]

The PBS program, NOW, with David Brancaccio is running an online poll.  Online polls are usually misleading, and the absolutely poorest method of measuring opinion. But, it’s cheap to do, and I suspect that is why the NOW people decided to have it. Yet, the PBS creators of the poll have made a serious error … A BIG mistake!

The poll question is: Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States? Yes? No? Not Sure?

Seems simple enough, except they have forgotten to install a software cookie that would prevent the same person from voting more than once on the same computer. As a result, you can vote as often or as many times as you wish. You can cast an unlimited number of votes … if you have nothing better to do.

Hmmm. Maybe that’s the new style in America that I just didn’t hear about.

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