Saturday 28 July 2007

More poll fixing at NineMSN

I've been keeping a record of the poll fixing happening on NineMSN's online polls. I didn't have the opportunity to take images of the latest example - Should the government give Dr Haneef his visa back?

When I checked in yesterday evening the Yes vote was around 9500 and the No vote was around 9700. That was in line with the numbers earlier in the day.

One thing I've noticed about polls is that the ratio of Yes to No doesn't change by an material amount once 2000 votes have been cast.

Given the political nature of the question on this poll it comes as no surprise that there has been some mucking about going on overnight.



The numbers have been manipulated to 208,000 to 18,000. I'm not surprised. Manipulating the truth is the left's number one talent.