For those of you keeping track, here’s the latest in the Hungarian Bridge naming contest:
Stephen Colbert híd 90519 [31%]
Zrínyi híd 83586 [29%]
Jon Stewart híd 58496 [20%]
Perl-Script híd 12211 [4%]
Pató Pál híd 11833 [4%]
And there’s been an interesting entry edit for the Northern_M0_Danube_bridge Wiki entry in the past day or so:
On August 1, Reuters reported that the top candidate according to the online poll was the “Chuck Norris hid”, named for American action star Chuck Norris. On August 11, American satirist Stephen Colbert discussed the story on his comedy program The Colbert Report, instructing his viewers to visit the polling website and vote for him instead of Norris. The next day the number of votes for him had grown 23000%, and he now asked his viewer to follow a link from his own “Colbert Nation” website, to avoid “all that illegible Hungarian”. Colbert’s site also offered techniques for “stuffing the ballot box” by using one of several automated scripts created by forum members to cast multiple votes for Colbert. On August 15, he repeated his call to be voted top of the Hungarian poll, and by August 22, the “Stephen Colbert híd” was in first with 17 million votes, about 14 million votes ahead of the second-placed Zrínyi híd, named after the Croatian-Hungarian national hero, Miklós Zrinyi, and about 7 million more than the entire population of Hungary. The same day, the site announced a new round of voting, which would require registration to participate, and Colbert asked his viewers to “call off the dogs”, requesting on his website that fans stop using scripts to vote. Despite this, the “Stephen Colbert híd” has remained in the top position on the website so far in the second round.
As of September 2, 2006, the top three names were Stephen Colbert, Zrínyi and Jon Stewart with Perl-Script a close fourth. Because Zrinyi rocketed around 40,000 votes in a matter of hours, many people have been lead to believe that the Hungarian government is actually cheating themselves.
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