At the beginning of this week, the French Hill/Tsameret HaBirah/Givat HaMivtar/Ramat Eshkol Community Center finally removed the "bike lane survey" from its website. This survey had clearly been manipulated through "ballot stuffing" on April 22nd, when, within the space of two hours, the number of votes more than doubled in favor of the bike lane project. It is worth noting that over the course of the following two weeks, only 15 votes were registered!
This anonymous survey did not have adequate control features to insure one vote per person. Thus its results were not reliable. This was pointed out to the City Officials who nonetheless insisted on referring to it as support for the bike lane project, while disregarding the approximately 1,000-strong, signed petition of named individuals who expressed their opposition to the bike lane project. It took the Community Center three weeks to remove the survey...better late than never!
This anonymous survey did not have adequate control features to insure one vote per person. Thus its results were not reliable. This was pointed out to the City Officials who nonetheless insisted on referring to it as support for the bike lane project, while disregarding the approximately 1,000-strong, signed petition of named individuals who expressed their opposition to the bike lane project. It took the Community Center three weeks to remove the survey...better late than never!
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| On the 22nd of April within two hours the survey doubled itself by more than 800 votes in favor of the bike lane project. Since then, the survey has increased by a mere 15 votes (see photo above and compare to this post). Clearly it is not reasonable to believe that 800 individuals spontaneously decided to vote all at the same time on the 22nd of April, but rather that something far more deceptive was afoot... |
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