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Bertotti · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:57 pm Post subject:

Cool but thanks for trying! I wish the voting was opened up. The wording of the facts is not even perfectly clear on number of votes some people think vote as many times each day as you have emails but others think it is one person one vote. I do not know how they will sort it out in the end. I am shocked that the grand prize project currently has way over 20K votes! I am also highly disappointed int eh community it just seems that there should be so many more votes if they were involved but in their defense it is an old community and it would not be surprising in a large portion don't even have email addresses except for the ones with kids.

Thanks again everyone!

Pepperpotty · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:10 pm Post subject:

You never know, the people in the lead may have loads of international votes that might get discounted at the end. We can always hope!
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Bertotti · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:25 pm Post subject:

I wonder but truth is I think he project in the lead should be in the lead, not to rain on our project but the lead project has no challengers now and is a great project even if no one votes the rest of the month I don't think any other project will come close to their vote level.

Bertotti · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:46 pm Post subject:

1561 down from first place and the local tv station did a story on it! I put the request in and they did it within a day or two. I hope that helps the big toe ext to us is Sioux Falls SD close to 200K people I hope the pitch in! Thanks everyone for putting up with this it is exciting for our little school! Oh and Please vote every day!

http://www.bridgestonetire.com/fuelthecause/finalists/the-gift-of-music-shared-for-a-lifetime

Bertotti · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:27 pm Post subject:

Hey all me again

current standings

1529 points behind first place while the first runner up keeps closing the gap to our second place spot, they are now 2492 points behind us. They get closer everyday so please click on the link in my sig and vote or click on the link in the first post and vote! We would really appreciate it!

FYI this is important the difference between these four places is as follows.

grand prize is a 25K grant
first place is 15K grant
second place (on current rank) is 10K grant
first runner up, currently closing on us everyday is 5K grant.
Dollars US. We will be happy with any place we get because it is all money for our music program we don't have but to loose one place in the rank will cut the benefit in half! So please vote everyday! Thanks!

StephenKay · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 2:44 pm Post subject:

Did my daily vote. Wink

BTW, I tried voting more than once with more than one email address, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't work.

For example, right now I went there for the first time today, and it had 7871 votes. So, I voted, entered my email, submitted, and vote count goes to 7872. So far so good.

Now, to try and vote a second time. I refresh the page, or open a new browser window, and go to the address again. But now, vote count is back to 7871 (!)

So I vote again, with a different email address. Now it goes back to 7872. Refresh the window, back to 7871.

I tried it with a different browser (same computer) - same issue. So it seems it's doing something to check.
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Bertotti · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks Stephen!
Yes I believe they are checking IP addy's and whatever else they can check to stop duplicate voting or multiple voting with different email address. I read the faqs and it seems that is the intent. I tried also to confirm one vote was all that was counted from a couple different emails, as it should be. I understand they are doing checking also to make sure someone didn't buy votes from some of those companies that do such thing, similar to buying friends on FB or Twitter. I have no idea how they check that. I also have no idea how they check if different countries are voting. I assume it is an IP thing but what if it is an email created on a US site. I have no clue. I just try to get the word out.
Thanks again!

Please everyone if you can spare a minute vote!

Bertotti · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject:

Morning shout out everryone! Please give us a a vote today my sig has the link as does the original post. We are just under 1500 points behind first place and first runner up in around 2400 votes behind us.

Please remember to vote everyday the voting goes through April 30th. Thanks!

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Bertotti · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:44 am Post subject:

Close the ground a bit over the week end just under 1400 points form first place, easily attainable if you all help with a daily vote so please do!

The catch now is the project behind us in around 2300 votes behind so if they get the right support they could catch us. We always get ahead a bt on the weekend but it seems we loose our gains as soon as the week hit. Thanks again everyone please vote daily!

Bertotti · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:29 pm Post subject:

Tuesday afternoon here and any ground we made u over the weekend is gone. Back to over 1500 behind first and the project behind us is with in 1200. I won't be surprised if they pass us. Seems that a lot of people have just given up, not here but everywhere. We do well over a weekend but as soon as the week days hit we loose ground fast.

If anyone has the endurance to vote for us please do ti would be great if we could at least hold our current place which would be a 10k grant if the project behind catches us the grant will be cut in half to 5K. So please if you would please vote every day for the rest of the month! I know tis a lot to ask but it really is a good cause! Thanks everyone!

Bertotti · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:16 am Post subject:

BIG Problem! We are just over 800 point form losing our second place position we really need your help please vote now and every day for the rest of the week! Thanks!

Really all you people from the states please vote this is a worthy cause and we are so close to losing our spot, please vote once a day for the rest of this month! Thanks!

If we loose the second place spot it will mean a reduction in the grant of at least 5000$ US and this school really needs this money. Please vote everyday for the rest of the month!

BobTheDog · Platinum Member Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 1535

I just checked my voting and it doesn't seem to have been counting.

I made the vote and the count went up, then I refreshed the page and the count went down.

So it must be discounting votes from the UK Sad

StephenKay · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:57 am Post subject:

mikemolloyuk · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:53 am Post subject:

I voted for the first time today and it was at 9747 then when I refreshed the page to use a different email address it dropped by 1..!
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Bertotti · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:31 am Post subject:

Thanks!, I have noticed the same thing but I believe the page isn't refreshing right it does the same thing for me but I think there is a delay in the count.

We are now just over 700 points form losing our second place spot and expect at this rate to be dropped by the end of the day so if you can please vote everyday for the rest of the month. Thanks you to everyone who has tried to help, remember it is a daily vote so please vote everyday! Thanks!