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community newsStraw Poll: The ResultFriday, 22 January 2010 Whilst this show of virtual hands was never intended to give a scientific result, it was an attempt to reflect public opinion with a simple honour-based poll. There were a total of 719 votes registered. Before adjustment the result of the poll was: Pride/Fisher: 54.3% We then analysed these votes and, without knowing which vote was for which proposal, removed over 350 votes that we did not feel were representative of real people. These were votes that raised doubts for multiple reasons and were all cast in sustained blocks of 20 or 30 or more at a time (approximately 2 minutes apart - about enough time for the same person to register a new account in order to vote) rather than organically over the last 20 days. We analysed email addresses and other technical information about votes to help us decide whether we believed the vote to be genuine or not. There were 360 votes remaining that we considered to be very likely to have been cast by real people. Of these 360 votes, 41 were cast in favour of the Pride/Fisher proposal, and 319 in favour of the Wilde Ones proposal. The final result of the poll following this adjustment was: Pride/Fisher proposal: 11.4 % your commentssaid by Jimjaminy I've just read your brave and important editorial piece about the 'results' of RealBrighton's recent straw poll on the future of Brighton Pride and your findings (if of course, they are correct) are seriously shocking and of course potentially explosive. said anonymously Whilst the numbers who voted was relatively low, the vote is reflective of public opinion. The fact that nearly all of the Pride/Fisher votes were discounted suggested some foul play and attempts to "rig" the votes. Surely this puts the Pride organisation's integrity in to question.
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on Friday, 22 January 2010, 5:57pm
I am extremely disappointed to see that anyone has voted this way! I am, of course, referring to the the idea of setting up multiple accounts and voting! Very poor show!
It's more interesting mind that only 360 people did actually vote! Is it me or does this suggest people do not feel as passionate about this as some might suggest and that all people really want is a good day out that reflects the meaning Pride has always stood for?
I would be interested in understanding the reasons people did not vote rather than the reasons they did.