Someone submitted a comment -- since deleted -- spelling out how they'd rigged the vote. They provided several specifics, which seemed doubtful, but I wanted to double-check, anyway, against my original files. If they had submitted the votes they had claimed, most of them had been filtered out before I got the results from the survey. (So, if they were in fact telling the truth about attempting to game the poll, it had no effect.) Other fake email addresses were filtered out by me, personally, before I tallied the votes .(There were a few.) The remaining votes for Kitely were realistic -- a large portion came from email addresses that I personally recognized as belonging to readers -- were of a variety of different rankings, and came with personal notes. Could a couple of fake votes still slipped through? Possibly, but not enough to affect the results.
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