Back on October 20 I noted a website that allowed non-Americans to vote in a virtual "election" for the US President. Well the votes are in and unsurprisingly, John Kerry has won with a landslide 77% of the vote...
From John Kerry storms to victory in virtual vote (Reuters via Yahoo):
More than 113,000 people from 119 countries made their choice at www.globalvote2004.org, handing Kerry a crushing win with 77 percent of the vote, a spokesman for the website said on Monday.
Third party candidates, including independent Ralph Nader, took nearly 14 percent of the vote, while Bush garnered a mere nine percent...
..."We're not trying to tell Americans how to vote, we're just giving them feedback from the rest of the world. The outcome of the real vote affects non-US citizens enormously in the post-9/11 age," [a spokesman for the website said.]
Globalvote is a non-partisan, London-based website and not sponsored by any political party, its creators said.

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