Financial newspaper The Edge’s online poll which showed that 81 percent of its “readers” want opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to retire from politics following Pakatan Rakyat's defeat in the disputed general election has been found to be unreliable as the polling was tainted by cybertroopers.
Yesterday, result of The Edge’s internet poll was reported on various portals after 10,396 of the 12,736 'participants' agreed that Anwar should honour his pledge to quit politics for failing to capture Putrajaya.
Explaining this in an editorial piece, The Edge said its online editor Ho Wah Foon had removed the poll on May 14 after realising the unusually high number of 'voters' compared to the average of 2000 to 4000 its polls normally attract.
“Upon checking, The Edge’s IT department found that 6,354 of the responses came from one IP address, and about 1,700 came from several IP addresses within the same building,” the paper added.
Another 2,000 respondents represented seven different IP addresses.
“From this, it was obvious that the poll had been compromised and the results could not be treated as reliable or objective,” said the website.
Yesterday, PKR vice president N Surendran questioned the survey finding saying it did not at all reflect public sentiments on the ground.
Since May 8, Anwar has been leading mammoth rallies across major towns nationwide to protest electoral frauds which were documented by polling agents and members of the public.
He has also warned BN and the Election Commission that he would never stop the pressure until PR was announced the victor.
PR's committee is currently documenting details of frauds in at least 27 parliamentary seats won by BN, mostly by narrow margins. -HD
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Edge admits its online poll on Anwar compromised by cybertroopers
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