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2004-03-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-03-06 12:06:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Abstimmen = to ballot, to vote
Ergebnis = Results

Posted by GK 2004-3-6 12:37:45 AM|| 2004-3-6 12:37:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting - the results are exactly what you'd expect, in general terms that is, given the current political atmosphere: the results are polarized into an inverse Bell curve. What is actually surprising is that the number of 1 votes is more than double the number of 6 votes. Excellent! Obvious! Cool!

Posted by .com 2004-3-6 12:50:27 AM|| 2004-3-6 12:50:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Multiple votes will fail - unless you delete the cookie file, spiegel.txt, between attempts.

(You can use file find if you don't know where it's located on your machine...)

Posted by South-side Alderman .com 2004-3-6 1:08:59 AM|| 2004-3-6 1:08:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Regards multiple votes: Never mind, folks. They're being a tad more devious / intelligent than that.

You'd have to use a tool capable of editing the contents of Index.dat to remove the cookie - do not attempt to do so manually. If you have Norton Internet Suite (I'm using v2003), you can do it via the Web Tools - Advanced Cleanup function. The cookie under spiegel.de is the the key - it must be deleted between votes.

Sorry. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. Heh.

Posted by South-side Alderman .com 2004-3-6 1:20:49 AM|| 2004-3-6 1:20:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 check out the numbers now!

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-3-6 1:22:34 AM|| 2004-3-6 1:22:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 At 06.03.2004, 07:26 Euro time, the vote is 54.78% for "great job" out of 18,060 votes cast. About 22% (most of 'em French I guess) voted a '6', the worst.

Keep them votes coming!

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-6 1:27:38 AM|| 2004-3-6 1:27:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 IE users can delete the cookie (but all others get zapped, as well - such as your posting ID, stored in an RB cookie) by using Tools / Internet Options / center-section: Delete Cookies button.

Not that I'm advocating stuffing the ballot box...

Posted by South-side Alderman.com 2004-3-6 1:34:26 AM|| 2004-3-6 1:34:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks, folks. I routinely block cookies when visiting any site. Experimenting, I found out my vote(s) wasn't (weren't) being tabulated.
I have IE, so I got around that by going to TOOLS then INTERNET OPTIONS. When the folder came up I clicked on the PRIVACY tab. Then clicked on EDIT.
This bought up a window titled MANAGED WEB SITES:
Scrolled down 'til "spiegel.de" was found under DOMAIN. Highlighted it and clicked on REMOVE.

Posted by GK 2004-3-6 2:13:03 AM|| 2004-3-6 2:13:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The numbers are a bit skewed because Little Green Footballs linked to this poll and got a worldwide audience involved. I wonder how quickly the poll will disappear when Germany wakes up in the morning and sees the results.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-3-6 9:15:26 AM|| 2004-3-6 9:15:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Seriously cool guys!

Proof once again that the right is way smarter than the left.

Posted by phil_b 2004-3-6 9:26:47 AM|| 2004-3-6 9:26:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 As a Louisiana citizen these tactics are abhorrent to me. Please don't use them on the Australian MSN poll at:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/vote/vote982.asp

(Per LGF)

Posted by Matt 2004-3-6 11:52:30 AM|| 2004-3-6 11:52:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Think someone at Spiegel will figure out that there is more interest in the US presidential campaign than the German one? At 6PM, Berlin time,March 6 there was a total of 20,111 votes regarding Bush and only 4,721 responses to the question "Who ought to be the next President of Germany".

Posted by GK 2004-3-6 12:09:37 PM|| 2004-3-6 12:09:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Who ought to be the next President of Germany

Is there a write in section... either TGA or Don Rumsfield. I expect the population might be happier with Rumsfield.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-6 12:12:33 PM|| 2004-3-6 12:12:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Sorry, Shipman, the choices were Koehler, Schwan, and Weiss nicht. I think "weiss nicht" translates to "none of the above." I like your idea of the write in tho, but that presents a tough choice between Rummy and TGA.

Posted by GK 2004-3-6 12:31:47 PM|| 2004-3-6 12:31:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Southside Alderman---LMAO! What a great handle! Rantburgers are incorrigible! Who can take a lefty hate-Bush site and turn it into a source of innocent merriment? The synergistic entropy increasers at Rantburg, of course. Ah, my beating widdow heat fills with pride....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-3-6 1:42:33 PM|| 2004-3-6 1:42:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Latest results
http://www1.spiegel.de/active/vote/fcgi/vote.fcgi?voteid=2224&choice=1&aktion=setcookie

Posted by dataman1 2004-3-6 4:37:29 PM|| 2004-3-6 4:37:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "WeiÃ nicht" = "Don't know." BTW, you guys are a riot.

Posted by MW 2004-3-6 4:43:33 PM|| 2004-3-6 4:43:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Danke viel mals,MW. BTW, was bedeuten Gasse Katze?

Posted by GK 2004-3-6 7:34:59 PM|| 2004-3-6 7:34:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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