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Hahahhaa, I bet the buildon people went to sleep, woke up, and were like, "Whahahahaht?"

I know this is 9k, but I believe FIRST is also in another vote for 200K.

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It seems like a sleeping giant has been awakened. FIRST response has been awesome.

Here is the link to the $200K vote. You will have to register to vote:
http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote

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Here is the link to the $200K vote. You will have to register to vote:
http://www.takepart.com/membersproject/vote[/quote]

FIRST is ahead in this one to, 38% to 24%.

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Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship - Just jumped up to over 10,000! going past BuildOn xD

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2:43 PM up by 5,385 votes!

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Just added another vote, and now we're up by 5,386 votes. You guys are fantastic and awesome!

Keep voting, though. Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship got some seriously fast votes over night. They're now ahead of BuildOn.

And to ye who said something about 9K not being a large sum of money, even if it's NOT for an organization this big, it's still awesome to see the FIRST teams and alumni getting together to do something off season. If that be voting, carry on. It's a cool feeling of team spirit.

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And you need to be 18 to register to vote for this.

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3:00 ahead by 5,207 :D

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Agreed, and as a global community working towards this goal, together. Pitney Bowes has provided an opportunity for the FIRST community to have some fun and to see the bigger picture and to recognize that votes do count.

Pretty cool.

Jane

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In the lead by 5,420 votes!

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Can we win the 9000 by OVER 9000!!!!!!

Sorry, I had to

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You can put voting macro on it, but can't make it to obvious by winning by a lot...

Just tried it with iMacros on Firefox, works fine (just have to clear cache and cookies as usual)...

EDIT: Forgot to mention you need a delay and wait for the results to pop up then clear your cache and cookies

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It officially happened! :D

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Please don't do this. This reflects poorly on both you individually and FIRST as a whole. The sponsor of the competition has asked for one vote per person and that should be respected. If that means that FIRST does not win the money then so be it.

Remember, WWGD? (What would Grandma Do?)

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There's actually another really good lesson here: don't trust the results of stupid web polls.

You know the ones that newspapers and news programs like to run? Where they make up a biased or simplistic question, and then pontificate about the perceived significance of the results? And then usually fail to understand that some kid is spamming the results? (Basically, this.*)

Given what's been reported in this thread about the Pitney Bowes votes, it's pretty obvious that all three organizations are getting plenty of scripted votes here. Like Wolf Blitzer used to say, "this is not, repeat not, a scientific poll".

And it's all for $9 000 USD. For that matter, what's the point of giving just $9 000 to one of three multi-million-dollar organizations? (Check their financials: FIRST, buildOn and NFTE.) Certainly there are other worthy organizations for which this would be a much bigger deal.

The other voting page has its own problems—like requiring your registration in their program and your consent to disclose information to a third party (American Express)—but at least they've taken some measures to make the tally legitimate. And they're offering much more money to the winner. That's the one that the FIRST community should have its eyes on (every week for the next several months).

*In case that link dies, it's a Fox News web poll about the "real" goals of the Tea Party movement. In the lead: "Fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories", 89%.