and this...
Mr. Williams,
I just sent the note below to your web producer. The situation is silly as we all would love to know what the common sentiment is, but with this activity, all we see is that the anti-gun constituency is willing to resort to writing software to stuff ballots, than to face the situation honorably.
Please follow up with your web producer. Please have the numbers corrected and report to your listeners on what happened here. Tell them that there are so few people who want to further limit our second amendment rights that they had to resort to underhanded tactics to falsely demonstrate that they are the majority.
Thank you in advance!
Note sent to web producer:
Hi, this isn't a sour-grapes response, but one of concern. The John Williams' NewsClick poll is covering a very important and polarizing topic at the moment - one of carry permits for weapons in light of the NIU tragedy.
My vote is irrelevant however obvious in light of this comment - someone is running a bot that is skewing the results!
There is NO way that this many people are voting YES. The rate on the YES limit sales is growing at the rate of 40-50 new entries per page refresh. Your own site speed is suffering greatly as a result of this abuse.
What makes me mad is that we don't get to see what the public really thinks, and as of yesterday when this poll went up, it looked like the public voted 70% in favor of allowing permits - a drastic change to today's reversal!
Please go through your web logs and update the poll accordingly. I'm sure this data will be cited by WGN in the future - and probably others, it should be accurate!
Thanks in advance.