After the tremendous success of the Vote-o-matic, the blog has decided to continue its record of providing free election services to the nation.
Assumes special Observer blog self-back-patting yoga position. Achieves inner peace.
The opinion polls still give Labour a comfortable lead. But there are those who would cast doubt on those results. Particularly those who, like the blog, don't seem to know that many people who are falling over themselves to vote Labour. More suspicious still, no-one ever knows anybody who has ever been polled. So who are the poll respondants? Is there a sweatshop in a warehouse outside Slough where pollsters stalk lines of cringing, snivelling floating voters, extracting projected election results from them with menaces?
What is more, the polls do not take account of an elemental fact about humanity: people lie.
So to bring some much needed clarity into the proceedings, and to give the blog team of uber-intelligent top-of-the-range psephologists something to do (feeds nuts to caged psephologists) we proudly present the Observer blog poll-u-like.
On the surface it resembles any other poll. But it has certain advantages enjoyed by online polls:
1) It is self-selecting. There is no control over the sample being polled.
2) It is impossible to police against multiple voting. Respond once, come back a bit later and respond again. The keener you are, the higher your party's poll result.
The honest, no nonsense, woefully unscientific Poll-u-like - the more you vote, the better the result. You be the electorate. Multiple voting at your fingertips. No stamp required.
Poll-u-like. Another public service brought to you by the Observer blog.
Updated 15:27
Top tip from the Observer Blog gerrymandering consultant: The poll-u-like will leave a cookie in your browser. If you delete it you can vote more frequently for extra bonus ballot-stuffing effect.
