At 19:45 GMT this fell to 30% and Maxthon took the lead at 42%
Were they hacked or did they base the statistics on 16 bit integers that have now overflowed



There must be a way to advise About.com discretely of your observations so they can initiate their "internal checks" and confirm all is above board?About.com Readers' Choice Awards FAO's wrote:
What controls do you have in place to ensure fairness during the voting process?
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Maybe About.com's browser twitter feed is a channel: https://twitter.com/About_Browsers - at least they seem to be reporting the intermediate results regularly.Blacklab wrote:There must be a way to advise About.com discretely of your observations so they can initiate their "internal checks" and confirm all is above board?