CHS 2009 Election Endorsement Polls – RESULTS

UPDATE:
The totals are in and the CHS endorsements for the 2009 fall election are official. We’ll write up the endorsements in another post but you can see the vote totals blow. Thanks for your votes, delegates.

Original Post:
This should be interesting. Each of you has been given a paper envelope. Please proceed to your favorite chair and don’t open it. Inside, you won’t find this Web page. That paper stuff is your real life King County ballot. Put it in a safe place.

This page is home to the 2009 fall election CHS Endorsement Polls. The goal is to give the CHS community a say in the endorsement process. Because we have registered accounts, we’re one step closer to making online polls more than Web traffic popularity contests. But one step might not be enough. I’ve yet to run an online poll process that didn’t produce hiccups, screw-ups and cheats. Expect some of each here. That’s politics.

Here is how the polls work:

• Registered CHS accounts may vote in each poll once
• Polls close Friday night at 9 PM

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• If you do not have an account, you may create one here
• Log in here
• If you do not wish to have an account, you can have your say in the comments
• There are no error messages, by the way, if you try to vote without being logged into an account. So if you think you are voting without an account, you are not. You are clicking on a link that does nothing.
• The CHS Endorsements and final results will be published over the weekend. In the meantime, if you’ve voted, you *should* be able to see the poll results when you return to page without clicking “Show Results.” If you haven’t voted, you’ll need to click the “show” link. It’s a drag, I know. We’ll give you a good way to view once the results are in Friday night.
• Unlike some endorsement processes, the top vote getter does not need to achieve a certain percentage.
• Want to say something about your favorite candidate or cause or add a voter guide for people to consider? Please add to the comment string on this CHS 2009 Election Endorsement Process post.

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