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I don’t condone anyone ruining the results of a poll. I am ashamed that the Zune supporters did, but I don’t want to hear a word from these iPod fanboys either.

It’s no secret that someone created an autovote script to manipulate the WSJ’s “Which of these electronics are you most likely to buy as a gift?” Poll.

When I left my house Thanksgiving morning, the Zune had 241 vote to iPhone/iPods 63,415 votes. Pretty lopsided I must say. Well, someone went and ruined any credibility this poll had by creating an auto voter for the Zune. I won’t share the link since I think it’s embarrasing that someone has so little respect for this poll that they would ruin it by skewing the votes. Basicly this auto voter opens up in your browser and begins spamming votes for the Zune.

Now, 16 hours later, this poll has 169,554 votes. What is even worse is the fact that it would seem that someone also created something similar for the iPhone/iPod seeing that the numbers have jumped from 63,415 votes to 377,766 in the same time period.

The poll is now closed.  iPhone or iPod 62% [ 456121 votes ] and Zune media player 28% [ 206204 votes ] . That is 206,000 votes for Zune and ~390,000 votes for iPhone/iPod in less than 20 hours. Tell me that iPod folks didn’t cheat as well.

I am ashamed of the fans from both camps.