I Name the Guilty Man

Bearsy, good whatever it is over there.

I wish to report myself for electoral fraud. At work today, I logged in to MyT (official lunch break) to start reporting the usual Samanta et alii spammers in the hope of clearing them out of the ‘Latest Blog Posts’  as soon as possible. As we all know, that is the only way to find new blogs as the Front Page is useless in the extreme.

Anyhoo, while online, I nipped over to DNMyT to see which particular member of my nation Boa had topped or tried to blow up in in her latest blog. I was relieved to see that, while her blogs were still all about Jocks, her latest victim only got marooned on a desert island and was eventually allowed to die of fairly natural causes. I suppose it’s a step in the right direction.

Anyhoo, again. I didn’t log in to the site but clicked on ‘Vote’ and was allowed to cast my vote. I voted status quo and I think that’s why it’s a hung vote now. I voted the same way when  logged in and legal, so please disregard my second vote. Different IP, of course, because I was on the office server and I don’t know if I could have done it from my own PC at home even unlogged in. Not going to try it just in case I distort the vote even more.

I like the Word Count,  proof reading and Kitchen Sink functions in the blog features, by the way.  I know there’s a Read More, but can’t remember how to do it, so going to publish and then go back in to find your idiot guide to that function.

Addition

That was easy -nice site!

24 thoughts on “I Name the Guilty Man”

  1. Why not simply vote again on each of the others, that way you will have voted 5 times but your double vote will offset the ‘illegal ones’?

    I wasn’t even aware that it was possible to vote twice, must be a Westminster thing 😉

  2. Soutie, that’s a wee bit near the knuckle.

    As hmb would tell you, if he was here, the motto in all of Ulster and certain parts of Scotland has always been -‘Vote early and vote often’!

    Smiley thing – yes, I know you can insert them on this site, but I’m not ready to go over to the Dark Side just yet.

  3. I tried to vote twice, but it wouldn’t have it! I haven’t resorted to dashing out to the nearest internet cafe, but John, it’s best you own up. Very noble of you, considering all the appalling violence you have been subjected to since you joined 🙂

  4. Soutie, Westminster rules are ‘rigged vote’ we simply have a dictator for now with no separation of powers and no accountability. Don’t get me started….

  6. Hi, Paul.

    I am firmly of the opinion that there could be no such thing as a ‘good’ flogging if I happened to be the person being flogged. I hope never to find out if I would enjoy it.

  7. Hello John,

    Sound policy. Me neither. I suspect he who gives the flogging is the one who ‘enjoys’ it, however I assume the word ‘good’ in this context refers more to ‘thorough’ than ‘ethical’.

    English – what a wonderful language!

  8. No worries John.

    The “PollDaddy” poll software handles duplicates by cookie, and can also guard against them by IP (no good for Boadicea and me), but it’s not integrated with WordPress identities, which is a bit dilatory of both companies, especially when you consider that they are both owned by the same group.

    To follow Soutie’s advice you would need to access three more different computers, but hey, that’s not too difficult.

    Hey! The remainder of my comment has been moderated! Who did that? 😥

  9. G’day

    I am considering requesting permission to change my vote! or should I say have my vote changed, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to change it myself or even if I could 🙂

    I initially voted number 4, ( doesn’t matter) after giving the matter due thought and consideration, numerous sleepless nights and using this site more and more (with the now increased traffic (hip hip hoorah!)) I am now of the opinion that perhaps the option with the time stamps would be the better for this site.

    My only concern is what will happen to this site’s history? Will our existing posts and comments be transferred or lost?

    I think that it would be unfortunate if the rich history of this site was ‘trashed’ (to use a bit of WP jargon.) If the existing info is kept I would like to apply to have my original ballot of 4, eliminated from the final vote and replaced with a number 2 by the Electoral Commissioner.

  12. An open latter to the Electoral Commissioner.

    Dear Sir/Madam

    I hereby request that the vote registered by me (Soutie) on ‘the new site issue’ be changed from that of fence-sitter(number 4) to that of time stamp advocate (number 2)

    Trusting that the above meets with your approval’

    I remain your humble blogger

    Soutie
    😉

  14. I am afraid that as I have not studied the options, nor am I intelligent enough to understand their long term ramifications, I have chosen not to vote, thus fulfilling my contention that democracy is best served by a qualified suffrage.

  16. Ah Buggrit,

    This is the Oirish system of voting then?

    We all keep voting until we get the result Bearsy wants. 😉

  20. Paul,

    Either one blows ass IMHO.

    Ours,
    No matter who you vote for you get the exact same style of gubmint.

    Irish,
    Vote what you like but if it isn’t what we want it to be, we will have a whole other ballot. And we shall keep on having them until you vote the way we want you to.

  23. FEEG – Nice. Do you suppose the name ‘Woodgett’ is perhaps suggestive of a false identity, a little like ‘Mr Spanky’. I wonder whether the poor woman had to… (wait for it)…. ‘stay(v) behind’ after school.

  24. Ferret,

    The Irish only voted again because their financial interests swung in favour of a ‘crutch for a cripple’ when their banks sailed into rough waters. If they’d have stayed out they would have lost the EU subsidies and aid. Cringing curs.

    Bearsy, your system sounds similar to ours, you just have a slightly mixted parliament/senate arrangement with a more competent control of finances. Ours are just public schoolboys with more pocket-money than sense, who think ‘Daddy’ is always there to bail them out. Well ‘Daddy’ (the taxpayer) ain’t any more.

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