Gib tug-of-war: Online poll over Rock sovereignty 'rigged' as Spanish government votes 5,000 times
Saturday, November 2, 2013 @ 7:59 PM
A SURVEY on Gibraltar sovereignty was rigged by Spain's ministry of defence, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
The British broadsheet put the ownership of the Rock to the vote on its website with the question, 'Is Gibraltar British or Spanish?' and the option to click on either.
A total of 835,243 votes were registered, of which 89.9 per cent called for Gibraltar to be Spanish.
Only 93,891 wanted the Rock to belong to the UK.
But an analysis of the IP addresses of voters carried out by Telegraph IT technicians showed that over 5,000 of them were from within the ministry of defence in Spain.
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