More poll rigging for Labour

Labour can’t win in the real polls, so once again they are rigging the online polls.

Does everyone remember the story in the Dom Post a few months ago about how parliamentary staffers tried to rig a poll on John Key by casting 14,000 or so votes against John Key.

Well it has happened again. Peter McC noted last night at 7.15 pm that a poll on the Stuff homepage had National at 55% and Labour at 22% and Greens at 6%. Now a couple of hours later it was National at 34% and Labour at 35% and Greens at 15%.In those two hours Labour gained at least 3,500 votes.

And he kept watching and in the next five minutes Labour gained another 400 votes.

Now of course this time the poll rigging might not have been from parliamentary machines, but as they did last time, Fairfax should investigate which IP addresses were responsible, and publish this info. Also they really should get a poll script which prevents multiple voting.

You know there are times I’m glad we don’t use Diebold voting machines in NZ. I could just see them declaring universal satisfaction with the Government every election!