Last night, Rush Limbaugh won the Children's Choice
Book Award for best author, and libtard heads are exploding all around the
country. First, they tried to have his
nomination revoked. After that failed,
they accused the Children’s Book Council of being shills for right-wing
ideology. Now, after Mr. Limbaugh won,
they are making accusations of vote fixing.
Here is an excerpt from the Associated Press:
Nominees
for best author are determined by how many copies their books sell, while the
winners are supposedly picked by kids, who vote online. But executive director
Robin Adelson of the Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader,
nonprofit organizations that co-founded the awards seven years ago,
acknowledged Thursday that adults could easily vote and vote multiple times, a
problem not uncommon for Internet competitions.
"Every
one of our finalists gets fake votes every year," Adelson told The
Associated Press. "We like to think that's the enthusiasm of adults who
love children's books."
Adelson
cited three ways that people can vote: a widget that can be embedded in such popular
kids' websites as www.poptropica.com, a link on the awards website
(http://ccbookawards.com) that allows individuals to vote and a link on the
awards site that allows teachers, librarians and others to submit bulk votes on
behalf of their institution.
Adelson said
she doubted that parents or other grown-ups were voting through Poptropica, but
acknowledged the awards site was more likely to be manipulated. An individual
voter can vote multiple times and does not need to provide a verifiable email
address or proof of his or her age. Bulk voters are required to submit a
verifiable email, but there is no guarantee that a given teacher or librarian
is really expressing the wishes of others.
So what’s
next? Are liberals going to demand
children provide voter ID’s in order to participate in future awards. I wouldn’t put it past them. In the meantime, they consider it sacrilege to hold the same kind of standards when electing public officials.
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