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Chakra Poll Rigged?


BY SARVABHAVANA DAS

USA, Jun 30 (VNN) — There has long been a suspicion that the vote on CHAKRA for the debate between Adridharan and Ajamila das, which is completely controlled by the well-known neutral and honest Vipramukhya Swami has been rigged.

These are the facts. 16/6/99 - Poll suddenly appears for the first time.

This despite the fact that according to the rules, any expressions of support via reader letters etc where forbidden during the debate since it would distract from the debate, and simply serve to revitalise Ajamila from the expected thrashing he was going to get. Though the poll was not specifically mentioned in the rules, it has the same effect that the rule was designed to eliminate - distraction from the defeat that Ajamila is taking in the debate via the 'victory' he is achieving on the poll.

Score:

Aja Adri Undecided
51 42 13

First thing to note is that the figures are out by 6% which even with 'rounding' you would not get. Secondly such errors do not appear again.

17/6/99 - score

Aja Adri Undecided
45 50 5

18/6/99 - Ajamila suddenly shoots up as soon as Adri takes a lead.

Aja Adri Undecided
58 35 7

19/6/99

Aja Adri Undecided
57 32 11

>From now on for the next 2 days, everyone around the world reports problems voting, and the score remains frozen with Ajamila in the lead.

This problem only fully clears as Ajamila's article is getting ready to be posted.

21/6/99 - Ajamila's article gets posted at midnight UK time, as vote is updated.

Aja Adri Undecided
26 15 59

22/6/99 - Adri's article gets posted just as vote update again around midnight

Aja Adri Undecided
35 14 51

23/6/99 - For the first time since Ajamila suddenly jumped in the lead, people get to see something from Adri and the ability to vote for it vote.

Only suddenly the same mysterious problems that occurred the last time Adri had his article posted on 19/6/99 occur - everyone around the world reports problems voting. Infact people from India, USA, UK and Australia and other countries all say they cannot vote.

Yet around midnight UK time when the vote gets updated we get:

Aja Adri Undecided
74 12 14

By some magic even though no one was able to vote, the vote shifts massively in Ajamila's favour. Or was it only votes for Adri that were returned?

How everybody was getting an error message when they tried to vote and yet still the vote shifted so much must be the wonder of modern technology that only Vipramukhya Swami knows. What we do have are devotees from 6 different countries who will all give a signed affidavit, that they were unable to vote.

But still the vote not only changed, but changed massively. Please also note that the problems with voting all took place after Adri's article got posted the last two times, so anyone who read it and got excited to vote for him couldn't.

No doubt such problems will now be fixed for the future so that people can vote and Adri's votes still get filtered out.

You can draw your own conclusions. And if you want to believe Mr 'fair and neutral' Vipramukhya that 3000 people voted for Ajamila yesterday that's up to you. Some people also believe that he is a resident of the spiritual world and that his socks should be worshipped, so what's new.


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