Courtesy of Harakah Daily
A poll on the July 9 Bersih rally by The Star's online edition has disappeared after registering more than one million responses.
MISSING ... The results of the poll as at 9.30 am today
Earlier, Harakahdaily reported that the poll result showed that 99% of respondents were in support of the rally called by electoral reform group Bersih in Kuala Lumpur next month.
However, at press time (5.25pm), not only the question has been reverted to an earlier poll about Ron95 petrol purchase by foreign-registered cars, its result was also missing from its archives. Earlier, the result page for the poll showed a page with the message "Record not found".
The question on the poll reads: "What is your view on the proposed Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9?", to which 99 percent of the respondents chose the answer "It should be allowed to go on", as opposed to the remaining option, "It should be cancelled".
The number of respondents is possibly the highest recorded by any online poll conducted by the online edition of The Star, which boasts of the highest number of visitors among other mainstream dailies with internet presence.
The poll comes as the Election Commission made an appeal to Bersih to cancel its rally, saying it would be prepared to hear its demands, an offer snubbed by Bersih chairperson Ambiga Srenevasan who said the time for negotiation had long been over.
Earlier, some eighty organisations joined hands over the weekend to renew their support for the rally and urged the police to protect their right to peaceful assembly from threats made by a number of right-wing politicians.
Admin Note:
The Scribe is waiting to hear what Wong Chun Wai, Baradan Kuppusamy, Joceline Tan and the rest of the sorry excuse for a journalist of The Star have to say about this Houdini act from The Star. What is certain here is that the Rakyat (People) are fed up with the BN/Umno Regime and what The Scribe predicts here http://margeemar.blogspot.com/2011/06/bersih-20-maybe-catalyst-for-arab-style.html#links may just come true. It shows a broad spectrum of the Rakyat irrespective of ethnicity background strongly believe that our electoral systems and practices are somewhat deficient and archaic and above all, are liable to manipulation.
The Scribe believes this consensus results give a clear response that almost the entire populace believe electoral reforms should be carried out, and since the impartiality of the Malaysian Election Commission which is seen by the Rakyat as a tool of the BN/Umno Regime, an event such as BERSIH 2.0 is needed. Now we know why parties and individuals sympathetic to the BN/Umno Regime either want BERSIH 2.0 cancelled or held in a stadium.
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