Notes:Reading this post requires simple but boring Maths skills and extreme patience.It might help if you just scroll down to the bottom of the page first.

My intention of posting this,is NOT to discuss the recent disputes in Asia against Japan's bid to be a member of the UN Security Council and a series of other problems.
If anyone is interested in reading the European or Asian versions of the situation,please do some research or start another discussion.Your apathy on world politics is much appreciated.
If you have an answer to the vote question by CNN,go to vote there,this board is irrelevant to the vote question itself.Thanks.


Now back to CNN.
On April the 14th,Chinese readers found a article(China lodges protest against Japan) on the CNN website.Despite the incomplete facts and one-sided tendency,a vote caught our attention(current vote result).Soon Chinese readers started passing this article and called on friends to vote for "Yes".Some people started to monitor the vote result later on 15th.

On the night of 16th,the "Yes" rate climbed from 45% to 52%,in favor of China.

On the afternoon of 17th,approximately around 2:00pm,the steady growth in "Yes" led to 60%,then to 70%.The votes were about 880,000(Yes) VS 400,000(No).

Just in the same day,dramatic changes took place by minute.

2005.4.17,17:00 Yes 53%
No 47%

2005.4.17,17:06 Yes 43% 1,861,395 votes
No 57% 2,487,638 votes
Total: 4,349,033 votes

A million "No"s in 9 minutes.

2005.4.17,17:15 Yes 37% 1,962,657 votes
No 63% 3,401,170 votes
Total: 5,363,827 votes
Another million "No"s in exactly another 9 minutes.

2005.4.17 17:32 Yes 31% 2,090,687 votes
No 69% 4,663,247 votes
Total: 6,753,934 votes

15 minutes later...one more million "No"s.


2005.4.17 17:38 Yes 27% 2,266,718 votes
No 73% 5,983,612 votes

During 5:00-9:00 pm,especially around 9m China time,which is the working hour of Americans,we witnessed the breakthrough from millions,to TENs of millions.

Yes 28% 5,189,075 votes
No 72% 13,283,293 votes

Today,April 20th,the vote amazingly remain exactly the same rate.

Yes 28% 6,073,413 votes
No 72% 15,438,349 votes
Total: 21,511,762 votes


Perhaps many people don't have a concept of tens of millions of votes.Here's a comparison.
Started in March,the global petition against Japan's bid to become a permanent U.N. Security Council member,heated in Asia,collected 4 million signatures from around the world in about a week;the number increased to 22 million in April.It took about a month.
On the other hand,CNN achieved over 21 million votes over day.

I seriously doubt that article was that popular,considering I don't read much about that topic on this kind of message boards.Acually,none on the YN boards.

There are 3 possibilities.One is that the Chinese and Koreans voted for No by mistake.But I'm usually still at school at 5:00 pm,and 5:00-9:00pm isn't our ideal time of wandering online.Besides,the total number of Chinese internet users is only about 30 million.
Another is that Japanese are doing the same thing around the same time when most of the working population are still busy at work.Or that they are spamming the vote.In the meanwhile the voters tried to keep the increasing voting rate accurately around 28%:72%.
But both possiblities are low.Millions of clicks within minutes,on one unimportant vote,mean overloading the system which can lead to a breakdown of the website.

Now comes the conspiracy theory.
I remember reading that(before the last two perfectly stable 28%:72% results came out),someone guessed CNN was trying to control,or say,revise,the result of the vote,to keep the rate about 25%:75% so that the result could be used in other news articles.
I have not yet read any articles involved with the vote on CNN;the changes in statistics were not screen captured;I only confirmed the last two results and the first one.But this could explain how the total votes jumped from tens of thousands to tens of millions quitely over 3 days.

Is CNN making up vote results?Or are so many uncanny figures pure coincidences?
I know it's no big deal to you,but you should understand what impression the American media is leaving to us,and how much damage it's done to CNN's own credibility.

quit feeding the stars money

they chould have been hacked or maybe they are really making it up