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Logies checking up to verify votes

Exclusive: Logie Awards scrutineers are checking to verify if votes are legitimate, including some who voted for Jordan Raskopoulos.

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2013-01-15_1715EXCLUSIVE: Market Research company Roy Morgan has emailed a random selection of TV WEEK Logie voters to verify their vote.

TV Tonight understands emails were sent to individuals on Friday asking people to verify their vote and personal details by tomorrow, Tuesday February 19th.

“Thank you for voting in this year’s Logie Awards. Your vote has been randomly selected for verification,” a link states.

“So that we can verify your vote, please click the link below – this will take you to a short survey where you will need to re-enter the personal details you supplied at time of voting (address, phone number and date of birth).”

But some readers contacted TV Tonight, worried that the link was a phishing scam and were reluctant to proceed.

Another indicated they had voted for Jordan Raskopoulos, following a social media campaign to land him a nomination and deliver a mock acceptance speech.

A TV Week spokesperson did not indicate how the random selection were chosen, telling TV Tonight, “TV WEEK creates the voting survey in conjunction with Roy Morgan, who are Australia’s best known and longest established market research and public opinion survey company. The data is collated by Roy Morgan, audited by Ernst & Young, and all votes are scrutinised. Where there is uncertainty about the legitimacy of a vote, numerous methods are employed to determine the vote’s validity, and email is amongst them.”

But with such a short time frame, it isn’t clear how many may be in jeopardy or ruled ineligible if they are not verified by tomorrow.

“If Roy Morgan haven’t received a response by the deadline, other methods are used to scrutinise the legitimacy of the vote. Unfortunately, Roy Morgan can’t share the verification methods with you, for privacy reasons,” said the spokesperson.

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  1. I voted but didn’t receive an email. I certainly didn’t vote for that idiot in the picture, either. If they targeted people who voted for him, the only way to prove this would be for everyone on here who actually bothered to vote for him to indicate whether they got an email or not. If anyone who didn’t vote for him did get an email, then it’s unlikely that there’s anything phishy going on.

  3. I recently watched something about a guy who has been hacking a newspapers polls…and telling them he has done it…and it is mostly all automatic…so frankly I do not trust the data from any polls….if he can do it…you can bet others are also…TV polls…political…where does it stop and who can you believe.

  6. Good pickup, David. There’s definitely more to this story. It would seem as if the “random” verification checks are not that random at all, as a large number of people who voted for Jordan Raskopolous have received one. It’s no wonder TV Week are being coy about this.

    Some questions:
    how many verification emails were sent?
    how many of those were to people who voted for Raskopolous?
    Why are Raskopolous voters being targetted (if that is the case)?
    What about voting campaigns originating from other fan forums; eg Neighbours?

    Keep the bastards honest, David.

    Also, TV Week superspies have broken your *a link states* link.

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