{"id":2100,"date":"2007-10-21T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/10\/voting_1\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T20:57:03","slug":"voting_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/voting_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,,2195727,00.html\">Observer<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Given that more people vote to evict contestants from the Big Brother house than in general elections&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is something that you keep hearing. It&#8217;s simply <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4586995.stm\">not true<\/a>. It&#8217;s nowhere near true. The story I&#8217;ve just linked on the BBC News site tells us that 27,128,130 votes were cast in total the 2005 general election. And that was (largely!) one person, one vote.<br \/>\nNow while the figures are a little out of date, in that there have been another three editions of the regular Big Brother since then, the numbers are not going to have increased fivefold.<br \/>\nAnd as the BBC piece goes on to point out, TV producers don&#8217;t worry unduly about people voting lots of times. Indeed they actively encourage it. I&#8217;ve just seen the Strictly Come Dancing results show (it&#8217;s a guilty pleasure) and they&#8217;re already letting us know the numbers for next week&#8217;s vote with the lines now open even though we&#8217;re a week away from the contestants even dancing again.<br \/>\nAnyway, can we once and for all put to bed this urban myth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Observer: &#8220;Given that more people vote to evict contestants from the Big Brother house than in general elections&#8230;&#8221; This is something that you keep hearing. It&#8217;s simply not true. It&#8217;s nowhere near true. The story I&#8217;ve just linked on the BBC News site tells us that 27,128,130 votes were cast in total the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}