The discredited Sixty Minute Survey
on "Call to Arms"

Who was manipulating the figures at Channel 9....?

Printed hard copies with date and time from the Sixty Minute web page confirming this survey manipulation are held by Global Web Builders.

Note I started monitoring the page closely after the 3.50pm screen refresh on this 60 Minute page revealed a major change to figures that had stayed fairly static over a 24 hour period. (The ability to vote was removed early Sunday morning).

Statement and monitoring by Scott Balson, Global Web Builders, 7th June 1998.

All screen dumps (except last two) taken Sunday 7th June 1998

Image taken at: (note my computer clock is about 2 minutes slow)	% pro-concern over UN/new world order stance	Survey Counter shows
2.15pm	85%	No register
3.50pm	25%	1661 votes
4.03pm	18%	2365 votes
4.04pm	16%	2580 votes
4.07pm	15%	2751 votes
4.08pm	14%	2891 votes
4.11pm	14%	3062 votes
4.14pm	13%	3240 votes
4.16pm	13%	3240 votes
4.20pm	13%	3240 votes
4.22pm	12%	3360 votes
4.28pm	11%	3638 votes
4.31pm	12%	3639 votes
4.33pm	12%	3639 votes
4.35pm	12%	3639 votes
4.37pm	12%	3639 votes
4.42pm	11%	3756 votes
4.43pm	11%	3863 votes
4.45pm	11%	3966 votes
4.49pm	11%	3973 votes
4.53pm	11%	3973 votes
4.57pm	11%	3974 votes
4.59pm	11%	3974 votes
5.08pm	11%	3974 votes
5.13pm	11%	3975 votes
5.20pm	11%	3976 votes
5.25pm	11%	3976 votes
5.30pm	11%	3976 votes
5.34pm	11%	3976 votes
5.43pm	11%	3977 votes
5.50pm	11%	3981 votes
5.58pm	11%	3982 votes
6.25pm	11%	3983 votes
At about 7.45pm Sixty Minutes ran their report
This is the survey the next morning at 5.15am	26%	4855 votes
Wednesday 10th June 1998 - several days later
10am	32%	5487 votes

What is the basis of the vote rigging allegation?

• Someone at 60 Minutes interfered directly in the survey sometime between 2.15 and 4.45pm.
• During this period about about 3,500 votes were added to the survey by someone at 60 Minutes
• This vote rigging continued until about 4.15pm when it suddenly stopped at 3,240
• Between 4.20pm and 4.30 another block of about 400 votes was added
• No votes were added for about 10 minutes after 4.30pm
• At between 4.40pm and 4.45pm another block of about 350 votes were added
• In the next 90 minutes just 10 votes were added - probably the real thing
• This was all before the programme went to air at 7.30pm, happened without the web site being advertised, while Channel 9 was broadcasting a live rugby league match between the Brisbane Broncos and Paramatta
• Less than 1,000 votes were cast in the ten hours immediately AFTER the show was broadcast and the web site promoted by Sixty Minutes (more votes were cast in a 20 minute period just after 4pm before the show went to air)
• Only 1,500 votes were cast over a 60 hour period following the show and the web site being promoted (the same number of votes were cast in a 20 minutes period from 3.50pm to 4.10pm before the show).

What impact did the vote rigging have on the result?

• Before the voter rigging started after 2.15pm on Sunday 85% of voters had answered "yes" to the question, "Is there any basis for these fears of a UN-led new world order?"
• This "yes" vote dropped to just 11% in a two hour period during which about 3,500 were cast by 60 Minutes
• Over 9 hours after the programme was broadcast the "yes" vote had risen to 25% while under 1,000 were cast
• In other words, of about 872 votes cast by "real people" after the show, 834 voted "yes" (lifting % to 26) yet Sixty Minutes would have you believe that 74% voted no
• The 1,500 votes cast after the show raised the "yes" vote to 32% from 11% after the numbers were rigged.

In conclusion, Sixty Minutes cast about 66% of the votes in the survey on this page. They were all "no".

You say:

Subject: Gutter journalism and poll rigging, who do you yhink you are kidding?

Really !! you people have been caught with your pants down this time! Re your poll on the Call to Arms hatchet job. I have hard copy evidence of the Worlds Greatest Swing , the really MIRACULOUS turn-around and triple summersault with twist,that has occurred,incredibly,in YOUR poll!!!

Amazing ,really ,isn't it, that your poll goes from a 91% yes ---9% no vote to..............................26% yes -----74% no ,in the space of 24 hrs!

I have another set of figures that you might be interested in, they relate to your Credibility,.........0% now -------0%in the future

Disgustedly yours
Steve Nichols

Subject: 60 Minutes

Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 00:10:55 +0800

This evening when I looked at the 60Min page the poll about fears of the United Nation and New world Order was 91% should fear.

But when I looked at the poll again at midnight it had changed to 76% against.

Does this mean that Channel9 has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes or were the figures made up?

I myself do believe that there is justification for fear of a One World Government.

Peter
Geraldton

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