Park Slope Defeats Roosevelt Island In First Round Of Curbed Neighborhood Of The Year Contest - Keyboard Computer Ballot Stuffing By Both Sides Alters Vote Count
Alas, the Great New York City 2010 Curbed Neighborhood Of The Year upset was not be. The Goliath Park Slope has defeated the Roosevelt Island Ru-dy in a crushing blow to our plucky little Island.
After leading Park Slope in the vote tally most of the day yesterday and even into the morning hours today by an approximately 57% - 43% margin with over 1600 votes cast, I was happy to receive an email earlier this morning from a reader advising that we had achieved an enormous upset by defeating Park Slope. Minutes later, I was stunned to receive an email from the same reader reporting that Roosevelt Island had lost.
I went to the Curbed web site and saw the final tally to be Park Slope 53.7% - Roosevelt Island 46.3% with total votes of 1175.
What accounts for this defeat? Is this our local version of Bush vs Gore and the 2000 Florida Presidential election vote count all over again? Do we have to start investigating the digital version of Hanging Chads? As one reader wrote in declaring:
Roosevelt islanders wrapped up in curbed scandal!Well, probably not a scandal. This is what happened. According to Curbed, ballot stuffing by both sides inflated the vote counts but there was more of it from Roosevelt Island supporters. From Curbed:
Folks, a quick word on yesterday's wildly popular and controversial Park Slope vs. Roosevelt Island matchup, and Curbed Cup voting in general: Cheating makes us sad! Our tech team detected ballot stuffing on both sides, including 401 Roosevelt Island votes from the same IP address (an average rate of 1 vote every 5 seconds). After clearing out the obvious fakes, Park Slope is the victor by a slim margin. Better luck next Cup, Roosevelt IslandCurbed adds:
Park Slope is the winner (by a marginal amount though -- Roosevelt Island actually did make a legitimate strong showingIt was fun while it lasted. We'll get them next year.
UPDATE 4:30 PM - At least on Roosevelt Island resident is not upset we lost:
I'm happy that we didn't win - my rent's too damn high!
3 comments :
Maybe next year Roosevelt Island will get a little more respect and be more than a 16 seed! :-) Great job by everyone who voted. I thought we had this one!
Some voting sites allow you to double (or triple or more) vote. Why didn't they just use some handy technology to make it impossible to vote more than once?
who has the time to vote 400 times?
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