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A Greens poll that formerly locked out dissenting voters is now open for business. So vote!

Posted by Tim B. on 06/27/2005 at 08:46 AM

  1. Those questions are a bit loaded.
    Talking about mandatory detention, Melanie Phillips has a great article today:
    Make Zimbabwe’s tyranny history

    Posted by Melanie on 2005 06 27 at 10:16 AM • permalink

  2. Those questions are a bit loaded

    A BIT loaded?

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 06 27 at 10:28 AM • permalink

  3. Ooooh, that’s fun. I’ve been watching the detention debate from frozen Zimbabwe-lite Martinland (that’s Canada for you fortunate residents of a country that still has it’s male appendages attached) and look forward to any further such wooly-headed nonsense.

    Posted by carguy on 2005 06 27 at 10:39 AM • permalink

  4. I like the fourth option of this poll (voting has closed for it, sadly!)

    Posted by Andjam on 2005 06 27 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  5. "that’s Canada for you fortunate residents of a country that still has it’s male appendages attached”

    We call that “Florida.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 06 27 at 03:02 PM • permalink

  6. Do you think that they’ll say the poll was “bombed” by right wingers? Do you think they’ll see the irony in us being able to “bomb” the poll by simply voting in it, since they couldn’t muster up 200 interested fellow-travelers to vote for the “compassionate” alternatives?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 06 27 at 03:05 PM • permalink

  7. Should have seen what happened when 850 votes endorsed sending troops to Iraq. They actually put that poll result behind a members only log in! They have a problem finding questions that they want pet answers to, because they realise they have to put in some form of opposition option. When that option is consistently picked, they get the shits and pull the poll. I’ve been doing this all year, it’s a hoot. This poll will be removed by end of play Tuesday I reckon.

    Posted by CB on 2005 06 27 at 05:23 PM • permalink

  8. #4 Andjam - you can still vote in that poll, just click on the “Do vote” link at the bottom of all the text under the poll to vote.

    Posted by cal on 2005 06 27 at 06:46 PM • permalink

  9. You can have serious fun with the URL portal messaging.

    Thanks Marty

    Posted by murph on 2005 06 27 at 06:54 PM • permalink

  10. I didn’t see a choice for “indentured servitude.” WUWT?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 27 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  11. They’re still not letting me vote. The message has changed slightly but is still telling me I’ve already voted.
    Check this out

    Posted by Gibbo on 2005 06 27 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  12. Gibbo… try voting from a different computer ;).

    Posted by mamapajamas on 2005 06 27 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  13. Yeehah! I managed to register a vote from my home computer. I’m officially known as “Participant 643”. What’s the market on when this poll will dissapear? Check the current vote.

    If Gibbo was a betting man…

    Posted by Gibbo on 2005 06 28 at 08:33 AM • permalink

  14. you thought that poll was skewed - check the current one which allows no room at all for a non-Trot view:

    Why should the Senate be rescued from Coalition Control? Select the issue most important to you:

    For the environment & to prevent permanent climate change
    To block an unfair, draconian Industrial Relations system
    To treat asylum-seekers as human beings
    To stop VSU and keep our universities alive
    To prevent the further concentration of media ownership
    To save Medicare, with quality health-care access for all
    All of the above and more - ultimate power corrupts

    Posted by KK on 2005 06 30 at 08:52 AM • permalink

  15. Not too many people will read this thread now, but anyway.
    Today’s (1/7/05) Daily Telegraph has a small article in it about the results of the poll, which said that over 80% of greens supported the current ‘harsh’ detention system.
    Roflmao @ The Greens.

    Posted by RhikoR on 2005 06 30 at 10:05 PM • permalink

  16. RhikoR speaks the truth!

    For the record:

    (From the dead-tree edition of the Daily Telegraph - hence no link)

    Caught in a web of startling revelations - by Malcolm Farr

    More than 80 per cent of the Greens believe the Government should keep asylum seekers in mandatory detention centres.

    Well, that’s one interpretation of a poll on the Greens web site, which is taking a startling detour from party policy.

    The overwhelming number of respondents, up to 84 per cent at one point, selected “Make no change to the harsh current situation"

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2005 07 01 at 05:01 AM • permalink

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