Urgent: How to vote in polls

Despite the majority of polls going great for our candidate I fear the pundits are trying to shape opinions for ratings.  Here is how to vote to help Edwards.

go to www.hardball.msnbc.com or any other poll.. i know it works for this one... Vote for Edwards, clear your cookies, refresh the page, vote again.

Do it over and over again... at least 20 times.

peeze... note* you will probably have to copy and paste www.hardball.msnbc.com, clear your cookies and then paste that exact address into your browser to vote again.

•  Oh holy shit

  You do realize some Freeper's going to take this diary and use it to utterly discredit all the polls right?  They could use this to destroy our real advantage in voting.  Geez...

  by ChicagoDem on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:25:41 PM PDT

  •  yes

    you should delete this diary

    by memberofthejury on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:47:24 PM PDT

•  hyperlinks are easy

  Ha-BAH with chris matthews!

  by Jacobus on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:25:45 PM PDT

•  For the record....

  ...I think that's crap. You're stooping to their level. They're silly online polls, and they won't change the course of this election one way or the other.

  I am happy to do my part and vote in them, but to do so repeatedly is crossing the line. It symbolizes exactly what's wrong with politics today.

  This isn't hard-hitting negative advertising, exploiting opponents' contradictions or changing the subject to the one you want; all of these tactics, while obscuring the real issues I want to hear about, are at least ethically defensible.

  But voting in a poll and clearing cookies so you can do it more than once is really no different from taking home all the republican ballots in Florida and filling them out so they'll be counted, while leaving the democratic ones in the inbox. It's called gaming the system, and it's cheating.

  by zknower on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:49:21 PM PDT

•  common knowledge

  this is exactly why every single online poll has a disclaimer saying "this poll is not scientific".

  being web based, there is no realiable way they can keep it to 1 person 1 vote, ever.

  deleting your cookies is pretty common knowledge (in web circles).

  i enjoy Freepin' the web polls, but really -- they mean absolutely nothing compared to live polling, and how valuable is even live polling?

  now that DNC/RNC are actively freepin' polls, i'd imagine websites are gonna drop them like rocks.  the immense traffic increase the freepers bring (over their normal web-viewing "local" audience) has be extremely expensive.

  by muji on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 09:26:52 PM PDT