4chan /b/ Monster Raving Loony Party Votes Removed from the General Election Poll.
Sometime ago a forum (4chan /b/) got it’s members (most not from the UK, so unlikely to be eligible British voters) to vote Monster Raving Loony Party in the general election poll. Over night over 900 votes for the Monster Raving Loony Party were cast (over a week it was about 1,000) and it put the Monster Raving Loony Party in the lead for a time.
When I cut the poll down to less voting options I put the 1,000 Monster Raving Loony Party votes into the Other Political Parties option.
I was hoping more people who visit this site (~3,000 visitors a day currently) would vote in the poll and so those 1,000 votes would be dwarfed by now.
The poll has just broke the 19,000 votes mark and as the poll was started early September last year (about 160 days) that averages at around 120 votes per day (averaged over the entire period).
With ~3,000 visitors a day I was expecting a lot more votes per day (around 400 a day). If 400 people voted a day for just half the time (last 80 days) and the other 80 days 100 people voted the poll would have over 40,000 votes by now (that’s what I was expecting by now).
Clearly I over estimated the willingness of visitors to vote in a poll.
Since those 1,000 votes throw the results off for the main parties I’ve removed them to see what it looks like.
Flame retardant pants on ready for the “you aren’t democratic” attacks.
David
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