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The German broadcaster ZDF ran an online poll on who should be elected US president. Something tells me they weren't expecting this:

ZDF actually took down a previous poll that was going much the same way, claiming that someone was "manipulating" it. I can't see that anyone would spend a lot of energy trying to hack the site.

I only voted once, so I don't know if they were using cookies or IP numbers to discourage multiple votes, but it hardly matters: Kerry voters would have had the same opportunity to pack the ballot.

Internet polls are kind of useless at best; but I think you could make the argument that, at the least, Bush voters are much more enthusiastic about their candidate than Kerry's are theirs.

So I go back today to see how things are going -- and wonder of wonders, ZDF has taken down the poll again.

Ray D. of the Medienkritik blog has more here.

Update: The link to the poll has been removed from ZDF's main page, but the poll is still active here. Choose who ye will and then click on the "Abstimmen" link at the bottom of the page to cast yon votage.