By the way, the voting has ended. Results: 4,293 people voted (unique IPs). Great Russia - 31.64% SPS (Union of Right Forces) - 11.67% YABLOKO - 10.34% KPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - 8.8% United Russia - 8.06% Other Russia - 7.04% The rest got less than 7%. Full results here: http://webgolos.ru/ In my opinion, the poll results are quite consistent with the political preferences of the Runet (Russian internet), adjusted for how well the activists of any given organization are able to mobilize. Supporters of DPNI/Rogozin and the like are the most numerous, and on top of that they very systematically posted links to the poll and campaigned for it. For example, the call to vote on Webgolos came through several times in the DPNI mailing list I subscribe to. The same goes for YABLOKO. Information about the vote was circulated through the party's official mailing list. For SPS, m_gaidar and b**elyh.** campaigned in their blogs. United Russia's low result is only to be expected: Runet users don't believe TV nonsense, and there are few real, ideologically motivated activists. What I don't understand is why they pour so much money into the internet if they can't even get their own voters to show up on the site. Maybe it's because the whole r**eal_rykov ** gang went off to Nizhny Novgorod to eat ice cream, and there was nobody left even to do some basic LiveJournal campaigning. I was very surprised by Other Russia's low result. That's strange. An interesting article by Budaragin analyzing the results is here, if anyone's interested. But overall, this is great. We've already had requests from several parties to run polls on their top-three candidate lists (like we did for SPS), etc. We're going to make Webgolos the main platform for measuring public opinion on the Runet. And yes, for those who have doubts: everything is honest on our end. If you don't believe it, come by—we'll show you the IP address lists and how everything works in general. There's no point in rigging votes for anyone. We have a different goal. It's more profitable to build a reputation. Reputation brings traffic. Traffic brings dollars. Dollars bring omul (a prized Siberian fish) and American rifles. And a rifle gives birth to power, as one political figure from Asia once said. So vote while you still have the chance.