Hart falls in Press online poll

It’s the write-in candidate by a whisker.

Voters at cdapress.com have chosen Republican Howard Griffiths to upset state Rep. Phil Hart by a 469-437 margin. A whopping 251 voters said they’ll vote for neither.

The online polls are non-scientific. Particularly with online political polls, readers should know that anyone, anywhere in the world, can vote. Yes, kind of like Coeur d’Alene city elections. That’s a joke.

According to Press Online Manager Mike Alexander, the polls allow only one vote per IP address, which usually is the same as one vote per computer. That way, Alexander says, one voter can only vote multiple times if he or she uses multiple computers. - Mike Patrick