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I just looked at it and there were about 586 voted. I don't know, since 
I haven't talked to Teri yet, but I suspect that the cookies were turned 
on in which case if your system acepts cookies you can only vote once. 
We did have it off for some of the "horse age stuff" since people have 
more than one horse..

Of course there is always a way to vote multiple times by turning off 
cookies in your system so no poll taken via internet is 100% secure 
since none of these involve encryption. However, I aways operate on the 
premis that people are honest and what in the world would they have to 
gain by "stuffing the ballot box" on such a question.

I have always said that these are not scientific and hence a  larger 
margin of error but it can be a good source of reading the pulse of the 
people.   

It started out right up front running about 64/34. Then changed to about 
54/43 with some fense sitters. It's sitting at 56/41 now.

I am myself actually surprised that the  "yes" votes got to 34% where it 
seemed to start. So I guess I'm not surprised that  it finish in the 
40's. And no I am not going to tell you how I voted - it's between me 
and the keyboard:-).

This probably reflects that there are a lot of new members and maybe 
some differenced in opinion on this issue. Just reading the tea leaves 
in this end of the country I can sense why this vote may have been like 
it was.

This also shows the need to refine this question based on Mike Maul's 
comments and break it into it's two parts. This will probably have to 
wait until I get back in town since I will locked away next couple of 
weeks with very little time to worry about such things starting mid week 
and have a lot to prepare to get ready.

T

Magnumsmom@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Truman,  
>
> [your original post was cross posted]
>
> Since your poll allows people to "vote" more than once it is
> meaningless.  I expect the statistician in you to disregard 
> the results of this post all together and let everyone know
> that the results are false.
>
> Kathy Myers
> in Santa Fe, NM
> ps... when this post first went up it was running approx. 32% 
> YES and 67% NO with 7 votes undecided with approx. 100 votes 
> in. I do not believe that all of these  300+ "votes" are all from
> individuals.
>  
t



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