I watched with interest last week as some posters suggested they have repeatedly  accessed  the  recent 250News  poll which asked  who  yuou would chose to be Mayor of Prince George.

There seemed to be at least some who thought they were able to simply sit there and vote over and over and that each vote would register. I thought I would bring you up to speed and spare you the agony of sitting at your key board for not.

Yes in the old days it was possible to do just that, but today is a new day on the internet.

You may be registered on the  site with a different name or a different email,  but,  your IP address   is  yours alone.

The new system  registers that IP address the first time you  vote,  and will  not let another vote from the same IP address register.

For example, Northern Health has less than ten unique IP addresses, they have several thousand workers using those machines. Whoever gets on first and votes will be counted.  A co-worker  down the hall, or in the next office may  vote, but  the system will only count the first one from that IP address.

There is a way however to get around this, you will need several machines set up in several different locations in order to obtain several unique IP addresses so that in that way you can vote a few extra times.

Make no mistake,  polls are just that, for the best advice on the matter just phone up Christy Clark and get her thought on the matter.

Using the regular phone to ask people how they will vote does not factor in the more than 30% of the phone subscribers who only have a cell phone, that regrettably the NDP found out in the last provincial election.

Our polls are not exact nor are they designed to, they are simply another small measure of what is taking place .

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.