a straw poll from democrats.com?

[question everything]

Got an email, inviting me to participate, now I wish I did not

This is the only poll - as reported on these pages - where Sanders lead Biden 2:1.

And, yes, one has to provide name, zip and email to vote..

But they already had it for me, as judging by the "autofill?"

https://democrats.com/2020-poll/results/

[LibFarmer]

1. Sanders people are desperate

They will use this to create some morale in the troops who are about to hit the bourbon.

Your autofill came from the DNC database taken by Sanders previously and he refused to return it per the rules. All other candidates return the database after the election.

[thesquanderer]

10. Or maybe the autofill was generated locally by the OP's browser? nt

[LibFarmer]

16. See Post #15

[Autumn]

13. That's bullshit. It did not come from the DNC database hack. Autofill comes from your own computer

browser.

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autofill.htm
Autofill
Updated: 06/22/2018 by Computer Hope
autofill
The autofill option found in web browsers allows you to fill out commonly entered information in a web form. This information might be your full name, your e-mail or postal address, or your credit card information. This sensitive information is only remembered on your computer and will only be autofilled in forms if your browser settings permit it.
Read the OP

question everything (35,101 posts)

a straw poll from democrats.com?
Got an email, inviting me to participate, now I wish I did not

This is the only poll - as reported on these pages - where Sanders lead Biden 2:1.

And, yes, one has to provide name, zip and email to vote..

But they already had it for me, as judging by the "autofill?"

[LibFarmer]

15. Autofill is not triggered unless

the user clicks on one of the suggested fills to a field and then it fills the rest.

The OP says

1. he received an email (means they knew who he/she was)
2. When he clicked the link, all the fields were already filled out (the link had a token to identify who he/she was)

Many email links have embedded tokens to identify who the person clicking on the link is and a server side database has the identifying info.

You may want to read up on Oracle databases and link tokens.

[Autumn]

17. As soon as you click on the fields auto-fill pops up with your information. I don't need to

read up on Oracle databases. I know how autofill works and I'm not going to argue your silly theory that the posters

autofill came from the DNC database taken by Sanders previously and he refused to return it per the rules. All other candidates return the database after the election.

[LibFarmer]

18. Autofill may come up but requires a click on one field

to fill the rest.

The OP is saying everything was filled in without any input from him/her or without him/her clicking autofill.

Secondly, the OP obviously doesn't have autofill enabled - if he/she had enabled it, he/she would have already known about it and not made a specific comment.

[brooklynite]

2. And why did you bother to respond to a meaningless email poll?

This is, in the parlance of the fundraising trade, known as a "butterfly net". The results are ignored; the only value is in collecting your contact information.

[question everything]

3. Did not know it was meaningless

and they already have my contact info.

[Autumn]

12. No. Your browser has your contact information. That's how autofill works.

[PoliticAverse]

9. Exactly. The right wing does tons of those via snail mail building their vetted sucker lists. n/t

[NYMinute]

4. "democrats.com" is an ultra left website

of "aggressive progressives" (according to their own intro)

I wouldn't be surprised if it is a spawn from the same source as JD, OR, BNC etc. and funded with the same dark money, some of it in rubles.

[jayschool2013]

5. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) leads

Ahead of the Democrats he's running against.

Bo. Gus.

[George II]

6. Reminds me of a time several years ago when someone claimed that he was ahead....

....in all 50 states! (online polls, of course)

[RandiFan1290]

7. Thank you for the link

Casting my vote.

[Kahuna7]

8. Didn't they endorse Kuchinich in 2004? nt

[Autumn]

11. Autofill comes from information you have stored on your browser not the Sanders campaign

rigging polls.
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autofill.htm

The autofill option found in web browsers allows you to fill out commonly entered information in a web form. This information might be your full name, your e-mail or postal address, or your credit card information. This sensitive information is only remembered on your computer and will only be autofilled in forms if your browser settings permit it.

For example, below is a traditional shipping form you may see when ordering a product or service online. With autofill, you can select a field in the form, choose what you autofill data you want to enter, and all fields will be filled out automatically.

you can disable it

If you want to disable autofill, repeat the steps in any of the following sections and select the option to turn it off.
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001377.htm

[question everything]

14. Thanks. Did not know that.

Thankfully, I rarely use a credit card online. Spouse does, but always the same card.