At 02:52 PM 4/17/02 -0400, Frances Fuller wrote:
>Jim,
>Interesting note: I just linked to the provided URL, submitted my vote and
>received the response that I had already voted! In truth this was my first
>visit to the site and I have never voted before today. I wonder if their
>administrative web system is tracking IP addresses and only allows one vote
>per IP (are our university computer addresses looking the same in their
>system? ). The vote count is only 160.
>
I encountered the same result yesterday when the total vote count was only
eleven. I suspect you're correct. Probably it isn't a conspiracy, but UTC
gets one vote and it was cast long ago. Keep this in mind the next time
you see results of an "unscientific" poll on television.
Fritz Efaw,
Emma Goldman Distinguished Professor of
Political Economy and Inorganic Psychology.