More Labour poll rigging

Good God this is the third or fourth time they have done this.

For a few days the NZ Herald has had a poll on who benefits more from Labour’s attacks on John Key.   Now I never checked the poll out myself but several people over a couple of days mentioned that it was consistently running at 87% saying National.

Then I got an e-mail alerting me to a huge number of votes for Labour being added on, obviously through some automated process. Previously activity of this sort has been linked back to Parliament.

So the Herald has now closed the poll, which within a couple of hours had Labour go from 13% to 53%.

I really wish the newspapers wouldn’t run these unscientific polls, or if they insist on doing so, restrict it to one vote per poll per IP address.