Decision ‘08

Straw Poll Spamming Revealed!

I knew something was up when Ron Paul topped the list of D’08’s Republican vote:

The perspicacious PJM tech staff has detected significant spamming in the third week of the poll and isolated the cheaters. In some cases they voted hundreds of times from the same IP for the same candidate. No, we are not taking these people to the woodshed (or even naming their names), but we are listing the locations of the miscreants and deducting their votes accordingly.

Without help from spammers, Rudy Giuliani (32%) and Bill Richardson (37.6%) were easy winners on the Republican and Democratic sides respectively.

Here are the spam locations from which votes were deducted - (shame on them… but if they want to waste their lives on this, who are we to stop them):

Source: an IP number in Hong Kong
Spam votes: more than 1,000 for Barack Obama, mixed with hundreds of votes for various R candidates; all marked invalid.

Source: Comcast cable Internet connection in New Jersey
Spam votes: almost 1,000 votes for Mitt Romney

Source: someone behind a proxy at a large aircraft manufacturer
Spam votes: more than 400 votes for Ron Paul

Source: Charter cable Internet connection in St Louis
Spam votes: more than 200 votes for Ron Paul

Source: another user of a proxy at a large manufacturer of aircrafts
Spam votes: more than 200 votes for Ron Paul

Source: someone at the University of South Carolina
Spam votes: 85 votes for Ron Paul

Remove the cheaters, and you have what you suspect you’d have: Giuliani in the lead. It’s the fourth week now, by the way, and you can vote again, so go do your patriotic duty (too bad you can’t write in Natalie Maines, but hey, we do what we can)…

2 Responses to “Straw Poll Spamming Revealed!”

1 What? Says:
February 20th, 2007 at 11:11 am
doesnt the pajamamedia poll have spam protection?
2 Mark Says:
February 20th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I don’t know, What?, I mean, Play Fair, I mean spammer…