# sample poll - what's your favourite colour - practice your voting skills here!
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**Created:** [May 26, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855 "2002-05-26T00:11:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/1 "2002-05-26T00:11:38Z")
Since we will soon be voting on smilies, this poll was created to practice the vBulletin polling feature. This will be a multiple-choice poll, which will also be the method we will use for the smiley election. So without any further ado, here it is:
Aside from black and white, which is your favorite colour?
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/2 "2002-05-26T00:28:00Z")
GO, BLUE, GO!!!
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### Author:  [@misshannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misshannah)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/3 "2002-05-26T00:35:03Z")
GO, GREY, GO!!!
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/4 "2002-05-26T01:13:06Z")
and it’s red and blue in the lead!
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/5 "2002-05-26T01:14:28Z")
Do you REALIZE how wrong and discombobulating it is that, in the poll, red is represented by red, but yellow is represented by blue and green is yellow??
And they said that the butterfly ballot was confusing :rolleyes:
I demand a recount.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/6 "2002-05-26T01:30:12Z")
None of my colors correspond except red.
Yellow is blue.
Green is orange.
Blue is magenta.
Pink is aqua.
Brown is green.
Purple is red.
Orange is blue.
Grey is orange.
I hate all colors is magenta.
Is this a trick question? 😃
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/7 "2002-05-26T02:14:37Z")
There is a minor problem with the number of “total votes”.
I looked at the results before I voted, and “total votes” was 24. I checked off red, pink and purple and voted.
The count for each individual color was correctly increased, but “total votes” was now 14.
I have saved the pages if anyone’s interested.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/8 "2002-05-26T02:15:49Z")
No ultraviolet?
No infrared?
No plaid?
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### Author:  [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/9 "2002-05-26T02:18:37Z")
> [@](#):
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> There is a minor problem with the number of “total votes”.
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> I looked at the results before I voted, and “total votes” was 24. I checked off red, pink and purple and voted.
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> The count for each individual color was correctly increased, but “total votes” was now 14.
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> I have saved the pages if anyone’s interested.
I think it tallies total voters, not total votes
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/10 "2002-05-26T02:32:11Z")
What’s to stop somebody from voting multiple times?
I think I’ll vote again to see.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/11 "2002-05-26T02:34:38Z")
Ah, it won’t let you. I wonder is this by computer or by user.
That’s right, I’m trying to fix this election. Go purple!
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/12 "2002-05-26T02:52:28Z")
After I voted, the total tally said there had been 17 votes, but when I added the individual tallies myself there seemed to have been 30 votes.
**Biggirl** … I’m looking at _you_.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/13 "2002-05-26T02:58:29Z")
rowrrbazzle, White Lightning - I think that what Big Kahuna Burger says is correct, the number shown at the bottom of the poll is total voters, not total votes.
rowrrbazzle, are you saying that the number _displayed at the bottom of the results screen_ changed from 24 to 14 after you voted? That would indeed be puzzling.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/14 "2002-05-26T03:18:07Z")
Why did you choose that order of colors? Personally, I like to go with a rainbow order when I can. Red, yellow, green, blue is SO wrong!
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/15 "2002-05-26T03:27:07Z")
Biggirl - it’s one vote per SDMB registered username.
Lynn Bodoni - I copied that list out of another thread discussing colour names. So the order can be blamed on another poster.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/16 "2002-05-26T03:28:03Z")
Yo, Arnie, you got the wrong kind of poll. That’s not a multiple choice poll–you can vote for more than one “candidate”. (I just voted for _all_ the choices, and it incremented all of them by one vote.)
You never designed ballots in West Palm Beach, did you?
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/17 "2002-05-26T03:40:41Z")
BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE!
[sub]In other words, yet another pointless post.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/18 "2002-05-26T04:12:44Z")
MEBuckner - are you saying I used the wrong term? What do you call a poll where you can vote for more than one candidate? Isn’t multiple choice an acceptable expression?
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/19 "2002-05-26T05:06:11Z")
Somehow I was under impression that this was supposed to be a poll where you can only vote for one candidate.
[Emily Litella]Never mind…[/Emily Litella]
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/20 "2002-05-26T05:49:43Z")
The approval voting thing seems to work nicely: I wanted to vote _against_ brown, so I voted _for_ everything else.
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