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How will you vote?

Ah ! Elections would be a lot less titillating if it weren’t for polls. They gage each candidate’s popularity and tell us how they would fare if the election was to be held that. By extrapolating the results from a few thousand of electors polls somehow manage to take the pulse of the whole population. Seems pretty wild! Nevertheless, people are always clamoring for them!

The candidate whose popularity is up can suddenly smell victory; while the candidate whose numbers are down frets for the future. But most of all, voters tend to react to polls:

- “Oh, no! I don’t want him to win!” “Now that I realize that he might win (or lose), my choice is validated”

- Or, “I feel like I’ve been striped of part of my freedom and my influence as a voter…the cards have been dealt and I haven’t even voted yet.”

- And there are others who simply watch in bemused silence as popularity soars and drops.

Planning to vote by polls? Well, they’re prohibited during the final days leading up to the election! So, you’ll have to rely on something else when going to caste your vote.

That is part of my reason for creating an interactive notepad for the 2007 French Presidential Election: to help me vote “objectively”, that is, according to my own convictions.

The interactive notepad is only available in French for the moment. Drop me a line by email or in the comment if you are interested to have it in English. I will consider it if there is enough demand.