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The ramper/impersonator exposes a vulnerability Those who were on the site at about 6.30pm last night would have followed the attempt of a ramper to influence the Ken and Boris betting prices by creating exchanges as though they were by regular posters here. The “dialogue” started with him creating what purported to be a comment by me saying I had information about an exit poll saying things could be quite close. It then went to cover quite a few regular…
Local Election Night 2008 continued
BBC Projected National Shares are Con 44, Lib Dem 25, Lab 24 PB – the place to be on election night Double Carpet
Election night – the results continue….
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Election night…. continued
Please help ease server pressure by using this new thread to post comments as results come in for the local elections. Double Carpet
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There has been an attempt to impersonate me and others on the previous thread. The person responsible has now been identified and has been banned. I am not aware of any exit polls tonight. Automated content moderation is now on – if you have not had a comment approved here before or if your details have changed then it will get held up in the spam trap. This was all the work of one person who was trying to influence…
Is the key to Mayoral result hidden here?
Was the postal vote battle the real decider? This table appears in the Evening Standard tonight and shows the number of postal votes issue in all but three of London’s boroughs. The total is 559,892 and I’ve just been doing some quick calculations to compare the number with a selection of the number of votes cast four years ago. For comparison I took the total first preferences from 2004 for Norris and Livingstone and then expressed this data as a…
PB’s YouGov figures are confirmed
The Evening Standard’s final YouGov poll of the mayoral campaign has just been published and the figures are exactly as was reported here at 9.27 pm last night. On first preferences it is BORIS 43%: KEN 36%: PADDICK 13%. After the redistribution of second preferences it splits BORIS 53%: KEN 47% From the poll detail it appears that there has been a hardening up of support by party allegiance. Two days ago 87% of those who have told the firm…