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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt » Blog Archive » AFA “Marriage Poll” flooded by queer voters. :)

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December 18th, 2003
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AFA “Marriage Poll” flooded by queer voters. :)

Declan,

The American Family Association is doing an “Internet poll” on “homosexual marriage” and civil unions.

Apparently, a bunch of queer folks like myself noticed it, and according to the post below, shifted the percentage in favor of “homosexual marriage” from less than 3% to over 26% in a single day (last I checked). This is *after* the poll was re-engineered to resist “spamming”, according to a posting on the site below (which noticed their anti-spamming efforts when 3,000 pro-”homosexual marriage” votes were deleted) from an AFA spokesperson:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/griffen/667656.html

Gabbie,

Your message regarding the alleged deletion of votes in our Marriage Poll was forwarded to me. I don’t know if anyone else from AFA has responded to you, but I will be happy to.

Here’s the long and short of it. We had someone from the pro-homosexual side of the issue use an automated script that generated thousands of false votes in favor of homosexual marriage. Certainly, we felt it was in the best interest of everyone involved, no matter which side of the issue they were on, for these automatically generated votes to be deleted. And, we have incorporated some technology into the poll to prevent this from happening again, on either side of the equation.

Currently, the numbers you see on the poll are from what we believe to be valid signers. We have no intention of skewing the poll either way, nor any reason to do so.

I’m sure you understand the need to maintain the integrity of the poll. Too bad someone from the pro-homosexual side of the issue felt the need to use such underhanded tactics.

Sincerely,

Paul Chaney
American Family Association

… the site is also quite fascinating, in that it documents, almost minute by minute, the shifting numbers of the poll over the course of a single day. I wonder if the AFA will still be happy to present this to Congress if the results continue shifting in favor of “homosexual marriage”.

Regards,
Thomas Leavitt

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