Oh, I don't know. It's not impossible for voting in an e-poll to have some effect, at least if some advocacy group is silly enough to set up an e-poll in the first place.
Look at what happened with the American Family Association's e-poll on gay marriage. The AFA apparently planned to run the poll and get results of 95% or higher opposing gay marriage - at which point they planned to take the results to Congress. Instead, they got less than 50% opposing, not least because word of the poll got out and a lot of people not in the AFA's core constituency voted. They abandoned their plan.
A small victory, perhaps, but a victory nonetheless.
Your point is well-taken, of course. Real results usually require real effort.
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Date: 2004-02-22 10:34 am (UTC)Look at what happened with the American Family Association's e-poll on gay marriage. The AFA apparently planned to run the poll and get results of 95% or higher opposing gay marriage - at which point they planned to take the results to Congress. Instead, they got less than 50% opposing, not least because word of the poll got out and a lot of people not in the AFA's core constituency voted. They abandoned their plan.
A small victory, perhaps, but a victory nonetheless.
Your point is well-taken, of course. Real results usually require real effort.