# I think online polls should have a minimum voting age **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949 "2013-11-02T21:35:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/1 "2013-11-02T21:35:10Z")
First, the fact that Breaking Bad got more votes than M.A.S.H. as the greatest tv series doesn’t worry me. I’m just wondering whether or not the BB crowd ever got to see anything better in their lives. In another poll, netters were asked who the greatest child stars were. No one voted any child star from the 70s and earlier. It was all Mac Caulkin, Halley Joe Osment, etc. No Marc Lester, Jack Wild, Shirley Temple or Jackie Coogan. Morning kids! ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/2 "2013-11-02T22:33:39Z")
Well, Anthony Hopkins is in the crowd that thinks BB is the best TV show of all time, so it’s hardly fair to complain about that… ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/3 "2013-11-02T22:45:25Z")
And how do you suggest this be verified? That the voter go to his local police station…? But I guess in the modern internet age this is not necessary–all kinds of online businesses such as Google have this data… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/4 "2013-11-02T23:19:53Z")
Because of course, there’s no chance anyone will simply lie about their age? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/5 "2013-11-02T23:43:01Z")
Include an additional poll question: Should kids get off my lawn? [_] Yes [_] No ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/6 "2013-11-03T18:30:02Z")
I hear you OP. Why, I saw a poll on “the greenest form of transportation” and it was all Tesla this and hybrid that without a single mention of Nicéphore Niépce’s velocipede. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/7 "2013-11-04T19:40:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Because of course, there’s no chance anyone will simply lie about their age? I’m 82 and I’ve never seen an episode of MASH. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/8 "2013-11-04T19:45:39Z")
Breaking Bad is better than MASH. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/9 "2013-11-04T19:48:45Z")
[Are you Dagwood Bumstead?](http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/blondie/s-1416236) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/10 "2013-11-04T19:59:31Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Breaking Bad is better than MASH. I’m inclined to agree. I get that _M_A_S_H\* was groundbreaking in its day, but it strikes me as wildly caroming between juvenile and sanctimonious. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/11 "2013-11-04T20:08:50Z")
I think online polls _need_ to allow only one vote per IP address. I’m looking at you, [CNN](http://netctr.com/images/cnnquickvote911.gif). I voted in that poll. “NO”, of course. All those “YES” votes conceivably could have, and probably did, come from a handful of people with too much time on their hands clicking away like mad. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/12 "2013-11-04T23:45:20Z")
The only polls that provide any useful data at all are selected at random from the population. Just ignore every other poll. All they will ever tell you is on what basis the respondents have self-selected. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/13 "2013-11-05T00:16:11Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Include an additional poll question: > > Should kids get off my lawn? > [_] Yes > [_] No Thanks, I needed the chuckle! ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/14 "2013-11-05T00:47:38Z")
Yuck. MASH is terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/15 "2013-11-05T14:58:18Z")
Was there no option for My Mother the Car? ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/16 "2013-11-05T15:07:44Z")
Any poll about “The Best [media] Ever” that includes media from the past 5 years will be skewed that direction. Ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/17 "2013-11-05T16:22:52Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Because of course, there’s no chance anyone will simply lie about their age? You can’t lie on the internet. Its against the rules. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/18 "2013-11-05T18:04:11Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > You can’t lie on the internet. Its against the rules. I know this is true because I read it on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-online-polls-should-have-a-minimum-voting-age/672949/19 "2013-11-05T21:43:17Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Breaking Bad is better than MASH. Having seen both, I agree. And it’s not even remotely close.