Gib tug-of-war: Online poll over Rock sovereignty rigged as Spanish government votes 5,000 times A SURVEY on Gibraltar sovereignty was rigged by Spains ministry of defence, according to The Telegraph newspaper. The British broadsheet put the ownership of the Rock to the vote on its website with the question, Is Gibraltar British or Spanish? and the option to click on either. A total of 835,243 votes were registered, of which 89.9 per cent called for Gibraltar to be Spanish. Only 93,891 wanted the Rock to belong to the UK. But an analysis of the IP addresses of voters carried out by Telegraph IT technicians showed that over 5,000 of them were from within the ministry of defence in Spain. And a campaign on social networks – including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp – lobbying users to vote for Gibraltar to be handed back to Spain was also found to be the source of many of the other users who clicked the Spanish option. Of the votes cast in Spain, nearly all of them – 98.8 per cent – wanted Gibraltar to be Spanish, compared to only 29 per cent of voters from the UK. As well as 71 per cent of site users in Britain, nearly all those based in Gibraltar who voted – 98.7 per cent – wanted their enclave to remain under UK rule. Source: Think Spain
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:39:27 +0000
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