Bad Voter of Week 13: NOBODY  (posted 11/19/08)

The editorial staff of Pollspeak has made a big decision -- we will no longer be naming Bad and Good Voters of the Week.  The goal of Pollspeak is to elucidate and educate not humiliate or alienate.  Problems in the polls can be pointed out and discussed without Pollspeak trying to pick one bad or good voter (for the week or the year).  According to feedback we've received, Pollspeak is read and appreciated by many voters and people who run the polls.  That is one of our main goals.  Our hope is to become even more of a resource for voters and pollsters in the future. 

We have plans for new tools next season.  For example, we're designing a tool that tracks head-to-head matchups of teams with similar records and can help voters make more informed ranking decisions.

We will still allow fans to vote on who they think are bad and good voters, and now the voting will stay open all week.  We hope our readers will take their opinions to our FORUMS, and go into detail about their choices.  We'll also continue to write our weekly blogs and will still point out examples of inconsistent or biased voting, but any voters named will be used as examples of a general issue and are not meant to be called out as the problem themselves.

With tools like POLLSTALKER, we provide fans, voters and pollsters with all the information they need to determine who they think is doing a  bad or good job voting. There really is less need for Pollspeak to "officially award" people.  Of course, we will still be covering any poll-related event that is newsworthy.  Pollspeak isn't going away, we're just evolving.

Pollspeak's Blog on SI.com (posted 11/17/08)

This week we discuss The Billingsley Report, Maurice Patton and once again Barrack Obama.  Obama may be the most college football friendly president since Gerald Ford.  Read it all in this week's blog on SI.com.