It’s official – STEPHEN WON!!!!!
Final Vote Counts (Top 5) as of September 8, 2006 2:32 PM CST:Round 1-
Stephen Colbert híd 17231725 [53%]
Zrínyi híd 2062649 [6%]
Pató Pál – híd 1805118 [6%]
Bethlen Gábor – híd 1735587 [5%]
Hunyadi Mátyás – híd 1478020 [5%]
Round 2-
Stephen Colbert híd 93163 [25%]
Jon Stewart híd 85171 [23%]
Zrínyi híd 83966 [23%]
Eötvös híd 37042 [10%]
Perl-Script híd 17354 [5%]
The mission, should you choose to accept it:
Get Stephen Colbert’s name voted in as the bridge name for this new bridge in Hungary spanning the Danube River.
To accomplish your task:
To vote, go here-
http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/
UPDATED! Phase II Voting instructions: Walk-through of the voting process
- Click on the “Regisztráció” link on the top left-hand corner of the page.
- Write in your email, and your password, and a repeat of the password (your password confirmation) in the three blank fields (IN THAT ORDER).
- In minutes, you get a mail with a confirmation link and your password. Click on the link included in the e-mail.
- When you click on the link in the e-mail, you will get redirected to the voting page.
- Type your e-mail in the E-mail cim field, and your password in the Jelsó field.
- Select the radial button by “Stephen Colbert híd” and click the Belépés button. You will be taken to a screen with the vote tallies. To vote again, click on the Kilépés button.
- “Belépések száma” means “Number of logins”. It does appear that you can vote unlimited times, but you have to be registered to do so.
- “Összesen” on the bottom means “All votes”, and the Toplista tally page seems to be working again if you would like to see the tally of all of the votes.
- And, in case you’re wondering, yes the Colbert Nation has already found a way to
cheatstuff the ballot box on this round of votes, too. But Colbert has requested (via the ColbertNation.com forums) that everyone play nice so that we don’t block out all of the other people from around the world who might want to vote. In other words – don’t cheat. Do it the long way.
A translation of the new front page:
On the main page shortly:
On 22 Aug the phase 1 of voting has closed. They are happy for the lot of ideas, some funny, some biting, some offensive. [First link to see the phase 1 nominations]
Against our plans, the lots of voters changed our mind: we send further 25 names instead of 10.
We don’t wait new names, but wait for new votes for the existing top 25.
The next phase last until 8 Sept, and you can vote only after registration. The votes made in the 1st phase _are nulled_. chanches are equal from now.
(some info about who will make decision blah blah) The winner of the second phase has a great chanche to be the name of the bridge.
A big HUUUUUGE and sincere Thank You to my faithful reader birogeri for getting a translation of the new page and new voting instructions.
Vote often because as Stephen Colbert says, “Carpel Tunnel is a small price to pay to give this gift to the Hungarian people.” Also, if you decide to use this information for your own web page, please put a link to this site on your blog. Thank you.
Learn how to vote for the name of the Saginaw Spirit mascot here!
VOTE TALLY
Phase I
8/15/2006 11:29 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 45,029 [0%]
8/16/2006 8:45 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 167,139 [1%]
8/16/2006 11:19 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 420,770 [3%]
8/16/2006 6:56 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 438,049 [3%]
8/20/2006 10:21 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 3,018,675 [17%]
8/21/2006 1:19 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 4,073,616 [21%]
8/21/2006 10:18 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 5,733,710 [28%]
8/21/2006 9:33 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 6,302,505 [30%]
8/22/2006 5:30 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 12,982,389 [46%]
Phase II
8/22/2006 9:22 AM CST – New instructions on manual voting
8/22/2006 9:49 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 104 [10%] (Ranking: #4)
8/22/2006 10:33 AM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 231 [18%] (Ranking: #1)
8/22/2006 12:51 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 2498 [64%] (Next closest – Pató Pál híd 275 [7%] )
8/23/2006 9:45 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 10,603 [39%] (Next closest – Jon Stewart híd 3913 [14%])
8/23/2006 11:58 PM CST Stephen Colbert híd 56,324 [77%] (Next closest – Jon Stewart híd 3975 [5%])
8/24/2006 11:14 AM CST Stephen Colbert híd 81,564 [80%] (Next Closest – Szent Korona híd 4294 [4%]
8/29/2006 1:02 PM CST Stephen Colbert híd 85,903 [55%] )
The Top Nominees: http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/toplista
Go Digg this story here: The Latest Mission for the Colbert Nation: “The Stephen Colbert Bridge”
today was my first time i saw and heared about this vote. It is very funny but i dont know why i want the bridge to be colbert.
I know how you hungarians feel about forign media talking about hungary. it gives me goosebumps to here about Armenia that
shows you have pride in your country and love it.
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Man, Hungarians sound like a pretty dour people, based on the humorless comments here. EARTH TO HUNGARY: IT'S A JOKE! It's your bridge, your country put it to a vote. Do what you want.
I plan to vote for a true world hero, Stephen Colbert. I'm sure no one, in America's 300+ years of history, or Hungary's thousands of years of history (Love those barbaric Huns!) has had a greater influence for good.
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Stephen Colbert híd 86662 [53%]
theres my vote
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Do you know after who was America named? Amerigo Vespucci, an italian explorer.
Do you know after who was Amerigo named (besides his daddy Vepucci ;) )?
Amerigo was a Saint, he was the only son of Saint Stephen first king of Hungary.
(The name is Emre, it has turkish origins. Hungarians use it as Imre, it latin conversion was Imericus. It sounds latin alright. Italians used to name their kids after saints to have a family patron, so little Vespucci became Amerigo).
Have a nice day :)
boo smartguy!
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I registered and voted, as indicated, but when I clicked to vote again, it asked me to log in again. So I did. And then it showed it the current standings (53%!!) so I clicked on Kilépés, as it says to above.
Then it asked me to log in again.
Long story short, I'm unable to vote again.
Help?
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Ah i keep getting this weird erra message in red after the hole e-mail and password thing and i cant Read it T_T
And i still havent got an E-mail from them
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Does anyone know what "Az adott felhasznalónév már foglalt!" means? It says that whenever I try to register…
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Well, Colbert has sunk to 51% and Jon Stewart has 21%. People seem to think Colbert has it in the bag and don't realize that Jon is looking to be the winner here at the rate he's gaining. Sob… if Stephen doesn't win I'm going to throw a pot of my delicious goulash at the T.V. screen the next time Jon's on.
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I just voted as of 8/30/06 and it said he had the top vote! Dude! Stephen Colbert Rules!
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Stephen deserves to have the bridge named after him!! Vote Colbert! b
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Stephen: 88726 (49%)
Jon: 43641 (24%)
Looks like Jon will hit the halfway point tonight.
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Yep, halfway point has almost been reached. Stephen is down to 49% and Jon has 24%
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Finally, the Hungarian government listens to me and put ads on the site. Now place the links and sites in ENGLISH. That would HELP!!!!!! Guys Think!!!! I'm even thinking of going to Hungary after all this, they tell me the country is incredible, it’s not so expensive and that the girls are incredible.
But please Hungary; give me an English website to see.
P.S. Name the bridge Colbert a couple of month and I'll bring my friends with me.
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re: Stephen Colbert Hid (Bridge)?
WHAT ARE THEY SAYING IN HUNGARIAN
For a Free Online Hungarian>English>Hungarion Dictionary- does not seem to do complete phrases like freetranslation.com but can help with individual words/terms
http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Hungarian-Diction…
A slight help but hard to copy and paste linked text
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Dear STEPHEN COLBERT
We Hungarians respect you as a god.
Please let us give you this little bridge which cost 90 billion $ for our poor country.
If you could help us whit getting the visa easily we would change our countrys name to yours.
Staying your loyal slaves
The hungarian nation
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I tried to register and got this — Regisztráció
A regisztráció sikeresen megtörtént!
Pár perc múlva megérkezik e-mail fiókjába a sikeres regisztrációról szóló levél. Kérjük, kattintson a levélben található aktivációs linkre a regisztráció megerősítéséhez.
Köszönjük, hogy regisztrált!
No email link has arrived in a funny font. I'm waiting to be able to vote for Colbert hud.
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The Colbert Nation is in danger of loosing the naming rights of the bridge. An update shows that the boosty named Zriyini is closing in the gap with 7000 votes behind Colbert.
As of 9/3/2001 with one week left of voting
Az indoklás megtekintéséhez kattintson a névre!
Stephen Colbert híd 90421 [31%]
Zrínyi híd 83583 [29%]
Jon Stewart híd 58496 [20%]
Perl-Script híd 12211 [4%]
Pató Pál híd 11833 [4%]
Chuck Norris híd 10706 [4%]
Hacker híd 10371 [4%]
we need to keep the voting up, lets smoke these loosers
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Yea clearly hungary is cheating now in this competition. There is no way that guy is as close to steven as they say he is. Its sad we will have to lose like this
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Yeah! where ALMOST THEIR
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We vote for Colbert for the sake of comedy. They cheat for….Zrinyi….because they suck….yeah I'm going with that. To Hungary: Stop being such babies.
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I can't believe the obvious cheating that the Hungarian government is committing in this election. It's a sad day for freedom and liberty when the tyranical government of Hungary is trying to subvert a democratic process as important as naming some bridge somewhere. What kind of sick and evil person alters the results of a public and democratic vote? I blame Osama.
All I can say is this; if you aren't voting for the 'Stephen Colbert híd', then you're voting for the terrorists. long live truthiness.
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Hungarians can be very nasty… um but Colbert is a Yanquee so they better watch it, eh.
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I cant get in to vote any more. They removed the button. Does that mean it's over? Stephen colbert is in the lead!!!!!! (By a little bit)
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I do believe we have conquered the Hungarians!!!! Colbert is on top of the world (and Chuck Norris–in a way that wont threaten his heterosexuality)!! …I cant vote anymore…its sept 8 and theres no more option for voting *tear*
its okay, hes still way ahead
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what im thinking is that the Hungarian gov has not named it The Stephen Colbert Hid(bridge) because on the site it has sum other name which i have no idea wuts going on about that.
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I like hungry people
I like colbert people
Why can't they just get along?
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well, if they're not going to name the whole bridge after Colbert, maybe they can name part of the bridge after him.. like the footpath. It would make an interesting story for tourists.
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YOU'RE ALL WRONG…STEPHEN COLBERT HID BABY!
The Colbert Nation, you truly are the king of kings!
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Ok, here’s the challenge:
Someone, anyone, find a man named “Stephen Colbert” from any other time period. Of course, this means he will be dead. Post a biography of this man (however short) on this forum.
YOU MUST SITE ALL OF YOUR SOURCES!!! This is VERY important!!! There is no way the Hungarian Government will deem this a feasible solution to the problem unless there is proof of this man’s existence. If this man also has the same middle name as our hero (Tyrone), this would be a bonus, but not necessary. This would be the best way to avoid even the remote chance of Stephen not getting the “hid” named after him.
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Stephen Colbert needs to fake his death like Jack Bauer or have a double like Saddam and the double needs to be dead
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The official name is “Megyeri híd”, referring to the place where it stands, based on the committee’s decision. They didn’t give a damn about the results of the vote. Too bad, I really started to like the name “Saint Stephen Bridge” – of course, on the basis of spencer’s deduction above :)
http://index.hu/gazdasag/magyar/hid060927/
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Mr. Webmaster,
Thank you for posting the Youtube clip, I have been traveling and were I am I can’t get comedy central. Thank you!!!!! Now I have a smile on my face!!!!.
Guess What nation? Why dont we all arange to fly to Hungary in support of Colbert if he goes to Hungary? That sounds cool!!!! I would pay my good dolars for a trip to Hungary, see the country, the girls, the bridge and most important meet the big guy himself COLBERT!!!!!!!
GOD Bless The Nation
Truth, Justice and the Colbert Way!!!
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*tear*
…I was starting to like the Hungarians…
Why, oh why would they hold a contest and then decide he had to be dead?!?!?!?!??
CHEATERS!!!!!!!!! If they wanted Zrinyi that bad they shouldve just done so to begin with!!!!!
I say we declare war!! Or get them to offend Kim Jong Il…
Either way, cheating or not, we know Stephen won! Fair and f*cking square!!!
So Colbert Nation, teach your children–let all generations know!!!
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This is proof of how democracy can lead to mob mentality, and it is not the perfect form of government.
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lmao “you have to be dead.”
well so much for that…
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