[Ham-Mac] My new letter to ARRL

[Chris Smolinski]

>I just sent this to the league. Maybe some of you want to send 
>something similar.
>
>to: hq@arrl.org
>subject: Computer Survey
>Thanks for nothing! You edit and re-edit the Macintosh results -- 
>for what?? To make the results meet YOUR expectations??
>
>We Mac users want to be heard. We want to be acknowledged as members 
>of ARRL who have a VOICE.
>
>Your shameless editing of MACINTOSH respondents smacks of bias, and 
>your expectation of results meeting your preconceived ideas is 
>disgusting!!
>
>I, and my wife, are VERY unhappy, dues-paying members of ARRL. We 
>are also very satisfied Macintosh users, and demand to be heard.
>
>If you can't be unbiased, then pull the damn survey -- all of it -- 
>and apologize to all of us.
>
>Harris and Laurie Ruben, N2ERN and KB2AYG

I wrote to Steve, WB8IMY at ARRL, asking about the vote adjustments. 
He says that "Our Webmaster discovered that an individual (or 
individuals) was "stuffing the ballot box" in favor of MacOS. He has 
to go in periodically and weed out them out (he has a way of 
identifying those ballots, but I don't exactly how). Since the 
ARRLWeb polls are only for entertainment and have nothing to do with 
ARRL decision-making, it isn't a big deal."

I've replied asking what the criteria is for duplicate vote identification.


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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com