A poll you can do better on

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   Marcus Ranum

   2 December 2011 at 7:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Knuckles his brow and shuffles off… “must. vote.”

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   Marcus Ranum

   2 December 2011 at 8:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   19647 votes “for” at initiation of pharyngulation process

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   carlie

   2 December 2011 at 8:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   They should just reword all instances of polls like this to “Do you feel that people ought to be able to vote on banning other people from having basic constitutional rights?”

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   Thomathy, now gayer and atheister

   2 December 2011 at 8:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It’s interesting to see the issue of gay marriage arise in Australia and to compare it to the issue as it exists in the US. I thought there would be more parallels, but the Aussies are better at advertising and at compassion, if their ‘for’ commercials count for anything. I hope Australia can join Canada and South Africa as another Commonwealth country that treats everyone equally.

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   Penny

   2 December 2011 at 8:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   And you can vote multiple times…

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   rorschach

   2 December 2011 at 8:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   56-44 now, getting there…

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   Caine, Fleur du Mal

   2 December 2011 at 8:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Voted yes.

   Rorschach:

   56-44 now, getting there…

   I hope to see a much larger difference.

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   rorschach

   2 December 2011 at 8:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Caine, as long as the Labor Party decides tomorrow that gay marriage is not of the devil, I don’t care about these polls….One can hope.

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   01jack

   2 December 2011 at 8:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I added my dozen or so votes, then started to get “error 999.”

   Yahoo, always amusing.

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    djfav

    2 December 2011 at 8:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    “error 999.”

    NEIN NEIN NEIN!!!

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    a3kr0n

    2 December 2011 at 9:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Knuckles his brow and shuffles back… “done voting.”

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    Ing: I SPEAK FOR THE HIVEMIND GROUPTHINK

    2 December 2011 at 9:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Should we put the rights of black people up to vote?

    Yes
    No

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    Beatrice, anormalement indécente

    2 December 2011 at 9:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I already posted this on TET a couple of days ago, but I’ll link it here again since it’s relevant.

    It’s time. End marriage discrimination. – link

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    Zinc Avenger

    2 December 2011 at 9:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ing@12, you took the words right out of my… keyboard? Is that the right phrase?

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    peterh

    2 December 2011 at 10:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Don’t have to renew the browser or anything else to skew this one. It was 59/41 when I got tied of the thing. (The poll, not the underlying question.)

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    puppygod

    2 December 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I got bored quickly, but still managed to vote it into 60%.

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    Wishful Thinking Rules All

    2 December 2011 at 12:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    peterh says:
    

    Don’t have to renew the browser or anything else to skew this one.

    Heh, a poll even more useless than usual? I voted once because I am lazy. It’s already in favor of gay marriage by a decent amount. One of you computer geniuses needs to write a script to vote a few thousand times, to save everyone’s clicking fingers.

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    djfav

    2 December 2011 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    “One of you computer geniuses needs to write a script to vote a few thousand times, to save everyone’s clicking fingers.”

    Tried it. We’re getting the 999 error. Denied. Too many requests. My proxies are spent. Looking for more.

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    sc_4935df1feccb7eb603b5d6db192cd1dd

    2 December 2011 at 12:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    39% No… That’s fucking awful.

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    montanto

    2 December 2011 at 1:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Done. It’s up to 61% now.

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    Alethea H. Claw

    3 December 2011 at 1:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yes! It’s Labor party platform! And Turnbull is in favour of conscience votes for the libs. This doesn’t seal the deal by any means, but there should be interesting times ahead.

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    StevoR

    3 December 2011 at 6:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Done. Latest figures as of now :

    *****

    Today’s Poll62295 votes since Dec 1 2011
    Do you believe same sex couples should have the right to marry?
    Yes 60% 37229 votes
    No 40% 25066 votes

    *****

    In other news Australia’s governing Labour Party has voted to change its platform to support equal marriage rights for all albeit with a conscience vote :

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-03/same-sex-marriage-supporters-hail-bittersweet-victory/3711044

    Come on Aussie come on, come on!

    [.. & join the 21st century for fucks sake!]

    (NB. Aussie speaking here.)