Day +1136 : Cheated or getting cheated?

I am fine today.

The Home Ministry's wanted to gather public opinion about the Internal Security Act ( ISA). They conducted an online poll starting from 5 August.

Initially, an overwhelming number of respondents were denouncing the legislation as draconian and calling for its repeal, but suddenly the figures shot up in favour of the government's move to review the law.

Malaysiakini reported the following:

The sharp spike - of about 17,000 in two days - led some to wonder if the poll had been tampered with.

Suspicions were raised when almost all of the new voters only answered the abovementioned two of the five questions.

These two crucial questions drew twice the number of voters than three other questions, which asked respondents how they learned about the law, whether they understand it in total and if they were aware that the United States and United Kingdom had similar laws.

Of course the Home Ministry denied the accusation. But what could have happened?

Firstly, it is as what the Home Ministry claimed; there was no vote rigging. That means the Home Ministry didn’t adjust the figure on the website. The sharp spike reflected the real scenario.

Secondly, the Home Ministry did adjust the vote in favour of government stand – that is to review and keep the law rather than abolish it. That means they are telling lie or cheating.

Lastly, someone in the BN camp created some robots – software tools – that automated the voting. The tool was smart enough to present itself as a different person every time and casted many votes repeatedly from a single computer. If this was the case, then the Home Ministry was a victim of fraud.

I believe the first possibility is very slim. As our government like to cheat very much, the second possibility is high but third possibility could happen as well.

So the conclusion is either the government was cheating or it was getting cheated. But whichever is true doesn’t really matter as both of them lead to the same fact – the online poll had been tampered with and thus didn’t reflect the People’s wish regarding ISA.

What do you think?

See you next post :-)