Here at last - the moment floating voters have been waiting for.
There was much written at the start of this campaign about how 2005 would see Britain's first internet election. The Observer blog was sceptical. We have been vindicated to the extent that political blogs have generally only commented on the news instead of making it. There haven't been any Dan Rather moments. (That said, we also predicted that blogs would provide better, faster, wittier commentary than most mainstream media and be plagiarised shamelessly for their pains, and we haven't been wrong in that respect either.)
But one phenomenon we did not anticipate was the proliferation of online questionnaires telling people how to vote.
Never one to see a bandwagon roll past without hoisting oursleves on board, we produced the original Observer blog vote-o-matic.
But some minor bugs were detected. In particular there were complaints about the number of people being told to spoil their ballots or vote Tory. So we improved the design. Now, with hours to go until polling day, we can at last unveil the ultimate online time-wasting, check-box filling-in, prejudice-stifling, preconception-baffling, argument-refuting ...
Observer blog vote-o-matic version 2.0.
It never lies. Let it guide you.
