# sample poll - what's your favourite colour - practice your voting skills here! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/21 "2002-05-26T06:25:21Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **rowrrbazzle** _ > > 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. It seems that if you click on the [View Results](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/poll.php?action=showresults&pollid=4) link (next to the vote button), the “total votes” reflects the number of votes. After you’ve voted, the “total votes” in the graph at the top of this thread reflects the number of voters. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/22 "2002-05-26T07:08:11Z")
Where’s the puce? 😃 Seriously, this is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/23 "2002-05-26T12:23:50Z")
An interesting note. I’m a non-cookie user, and when I went to vote, it asked me to log in. I guess it must make you sign in so it can do the “only vote once” thing by registered user. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/24 "2002-05-26T13:14:48Z")
Given the confusion about the multiple choice nature of the poll… when we do the smiley vote, can you make sure that there’s some sort of instructions _above_ the poll? I didn’t notice it was multiple choice until I’d already clicked ‘submit’. But then again, I’m just a half-awake button-clickin’ fool. [sub]blue. no gree–yaaaaaahhhhh!!! (c’mon, someone had to say it)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/25 "2002-05-26T17:25:40Z")
Oh, duh. Even after all the talk the last couple weeks about voting methods for the smiley poll, it didn’t occur to me that this was anything but a one-choice-per-vote style of poll. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/26 "2002-05-26T17:26:14Z")
The entire rainbow sucks and it looks like 13.13% of people agree with me. Now if we could only do something about the Blue people . . . ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/27 "2002-05-26T17:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drewbert \* > when we do the smiley vote, can you make sure that there’s some sort of instructions _above_ the poll? The best I could do was to include the words READ INSTRUCTIONS FIRST above the voting boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/28 "2002-05-26T18:53:11Z")
Brown! Brown! Brown! (Everything else is just so…happy) 🙂 stv ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/29 "2002-05-26T21:07:06Z")
In the name of our queen, I demand **orange.** ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/30 "2002-05-26T22:47:15Z")
Blue all the way, baby… ---
**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/31 "2002-05-27T05:33:33Z")
Gotta lean towards Rec on this one… ---
**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/32 "2002-05-27T05:35:44Z")
Er, uhh, RED. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/33 "2002-05-27T15:00:19Z")
Damn I forgot what color I voted for. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/34 "2002-05-27T16:07:02Z")
Octarine ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855/35 "2002-05-28T22:30:49Z")
Interesting… When I tried the poll, it said that it didn’t work, but I could hit the link they gave me to try my action again. When I tried the link, it came back and said that I had already voted, _but my choices appear to have taken nonetheless_. In other words, if it spits out an error message, don’t worry. As usual, trust the CGI. For the record, **Noodles** , I agree with your choice to put grey on the list. Gray is just boring, but grey is mysterious :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sample-poll-whats-your-favourite-colour-practice-your-voting-skills-here/110855.md?page=1)