Shorty Awards rigged - fraud exposed - all your votes were deleted

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Remember the Shorty Awards where we were winning the health category thanks to all your

votes?

 

Well get this: When a bunch of vaccine pushing zealots started

complaining that all your votes were too

numerous to be real, they started accusing YOU of vote

fraud. I wrote the Shorty Awards to ask them to enforce fairness and

professionalism in the contest. In return, they deleted all YOUR votes and

removed me from the contest!

 

The Shorty Awards has now deleted " Health Ranger " from the

health category -- even though we were winning! Since then we've

learned that the Shorty Awards is a blatantly fraudulent operation where the outcome is rigged to favor

vaccine pushers and eliminate natural health advocates. We're exposing their

fraud starting right now...

 

Presently, a vaccine-pushing doctor is about to (fraudulently) win the

award. Don't let them get away with this! Read what you can do right now in my

story that exposes how the Shorty Awards conspired to censor all

NaturalNews readers and declare your votes to be worthless:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028006_Shorty_Awards_vote_fraud.html

 

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NaturalNews has learned that the Shorty Awards are being operated fraudulently and that the voting results are fixed to exclude

candidates who the editors at the Shorty Awards don't want to win. In addition,

the Shorty Awards, by refusing to police its own contests, actually encourages

false and defamatory campaigning while ignoring legitimate complaints of vote

fraud.

 

The Shorty Awards, in short, has been revealed as wholly discredited.

 

This all started when Dr. Joseph Mercola and myself (the Health Ranger) were

nominated for Shorty Awards in the category of health. Although I didn't

know much about the Shorty Awards at the time, I thought that winning such an

award would have been a positive step towards mainstream recognition of the

popularity of natural / alternative

medicine. I first wrote about it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027966_H...

 

Within a few days, thanks to the votes of our very large base of readers,

myself and Dr. Mercola were leading the health

category, having taken the #1 and #2 positions. This was all done with

legitimate votes from real people from all over the world who support our work.

 

I was set to take the top prize, and Dr. Mercola was in a solid second place

when some vaccine pushers got word that a couple of " natural medicine

whackos " (as they described us) were about to win the award, and they

organized an opposition campaign to elect their own candidate -- a virtually

unknown doctor from Australia who held a strong opinion against homeopathy and natural

medicine while pushing vaccines

and pharmaceuticals. They began to call for others to vote for this " pro-vaccine "

candidate, even though most people had no idea who she was and had never even

read her work.

 

But the opposition didn't stop there: They unleashed a campaign of slanderous

and false accusations against NaturalNews readers,

accusing the readers of somehow engaging in fraudulent voting. Without a shred

of supporting evidence (because none exists), they accused us of rigging the contest.

It's ridiculous, of course. I personally have well over a million readers

around the world. We are legitimate producers of natural health

content who are both known all over the world, and we have very large numbers

of followers and readers spanning well over a hundred countries. The fact that

our vote numbers climbed rapidly was merely a reflection of the level of

support for NaturalNews and the Health Ranger.

 

It wasn't really surprising to see the vaccine quacks engaging in their false

accusations, of course: Lying and cheating is par for the course for the

vaccine and pharmaceutical industries. Their supporters apparently reflect that

same lack of ethical behavior. They will

apparently do anything to win, even if it means engaging in

widespread false accusations and trying to get natural health people removed

from the contest altogether.

 

The voters for the

opposition mostly had no idea who or what they were even voting for. They were

just doing what they were told by someone else in order to " beat the

alternative medicine

quacks. " Their votes contained reasons like, " I nominate Dr. __ for a

Shorty Awards because I was told to. "

 

 

In addition to the false accusations of vote fraud -- because these people

just couldn't stand being beaten fair and square -- the vaccine pushers began

tweeting votes aimed at myself and Dr. Mercola in their own made-up categories,

some of which use profanity so I won't repeat them here.

 

A voting competition can be a lot of fun, but when it starts to become a

platform for profanity, false accusations and juvenile behavior, enough is

enough. So I personally wrote the Shorty Awards editors and asked them to put a

stop to these highly unprofessional practices.

 

In that letter, I wrote:

 

" If you allow this to continue, the

integrity of the entire Shorty Awards will be destroyed. I had hoped this would

be a fair, honest competition that highlights the usefulness of short-form

content, but thanks to the rogue voters who are supporting Dr. Rachael Dunlop,

the Shorty Awards are quickly becoming a platform for defamation and false

accusations where those who can spread the most aggressive insults are allowed

to win. "

 

I furthermore asked them to disqualify the vaccine doctor candidate because the

votes for her were mostly from people who had no idea who she was in the first

place. She was merely picked as a puppet to stand in opposition against myself

and Dr. Mercola.

 

Within 24 hours, we received word from our supporters who were confused: The Health Ranger was deleted from the Shorty Awards

health category and all the votes from all our supporters were wiped

out!

 

That's right: After pointing out how the opposition was cheating and posting

false accusations, the Shorty Awards decided to simply delete the Health Ranger

from their contest, thereby nullifying all the votes from NaturalNews readers

and handing an automatic win to the vaccine pusher who was dishonestly propped

up to the #1 position by voters who mostly had no idea who they were even

voting for.

Shorty Awards destroys its own credibility

In

deleting, without justification, all the votes from NaturalNews readers and

deleting the Health Ranger from the contest, the

Shorty Awards has destroyed its own credibility. It has essentially

announced to the world that they will decide

who wins and who loses, not the voters. If they don't like you as a

candidate, they will simply delete you from the contest -- even if you're

legitimately winning!

 

I received no contact from the Shorty Awards. No warning. No accusation of vote

fraud. We were never accused of any improper behavior whatsoever. In fact, we

conducted our campaign with the utmost professionalism, encouraging our readers

to help us win honestly and legitimately, which they attempted to do.

 

But our success was just too much for the opposition to believe. They couldn't

believe that natural health is now so popular all over the world. They couldn't

believe that people would actually go out of their way to vote for me because

they wanted to support our work. And so the Shorty Awards simply nullified all

those votes, slapping the NaturalNews readers in the face by zeroing out their

candidate.

 

That's what the Shorty Awards thinks you are worth, by the way: Zero! Your vote

doesn't count, you see. Only the votes for vaccine pushers count.

Shorty Awards come up short

In

investigating this issue, I also learned that the Shorty Awards actually

encourages defamatory attacks, slanderous accusations and profanity as part of

their voting process. They do this by ignoring their responsibility to police

and remove such unprofessional behavior on the part of candidates and voters.

The vaccine-pushing candidate now " winning " the Shorty Awards in the

health category has text on her website that says, " If water has memory,

then homeopathy is full of shit. "

 

This is the mindset of the people the Shorty Awards is now supporting to win.

They've essentially handed them the victory. In doing so, they have destroyed

their own credibility.

 

In the end, I suppose winning a Shorty Award wasn't really such a big deal. We

don't need recognition from some tiny website to legitimize our existence on

the 'net. But seeing how the Shorty Awards engages in outright vote fraud while

rigging the awards just goes

to prove, once again, how supporters of pharmaceutical medicine lie and cheat

their way into getting what they want -- ethics be damned!

 

This contest also goes to show you that vaccine pushers will do almost anything

to shut down the opposition and try to silence anyone who has the intelligence

to question the so-called " science " behind vaccines. Since they can't

win in an honest contest, they are forced to resort to cheating and lying in an

attempt to rig the outcome. The Shorty Awards allowed them to do precisely

that. You could accurately say, in essence, that the Shorty Awards has

conspired with a group of liars and cheats to rig the outcome of their awards

competition. That is a factual statement that will stand up in a court of law.

Let the Shorty Awards know what you think

If you

voted for the Health Ranger, you should know that the Shorty Awards company has nullified your vote, deleted your

nomination and essentially handed an automatic win to a vaccine pusher who has

been shoved into the top position by a group of voters engaged in dirty,

dishonest campaign tactics.

 

I'm already out of the Shorty Awards, and as the entire thing has now been

discredited as a rigged operation, I don't need your vote anymore (but thanks

to all who did vote, as we were winning!). But I would like to ask you to do

several things:

 

ACTION item #1) Vote for Dr. Mercola.

Dr. Mercola and I agree nearly 100% on issues like vaccines and health freedom.

Your vote can help Dr. Mercola win this award over the vaccine-pushing

candidate that has been fraudulently thrust into the #1 position. You can vote

for Dr. Mercola here:

http://shortyawards.com/mercola

 

ACTION item #2) Email your complaints

directly to Sawhorse Media: Tell them why you don't appreciate your

very REAL vote being nullified and your candidate being deleted from the

contest:

 

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ACTION item #3) Link to this article from

your website using the words " Shorty Awards voting fraud. "

This will help this article appear near the top of the search engine rankings

any time someone searches for " Shorty Awards. "

 

ACTION item #4) When any other

newspaper or website writes about the Shorty Awards, email them a link to this

article so they know the truth about how the Shorty Awards have been rigged.

 

ACTION item #5) Finally, tweet your

complaints on this matter to the organizers of the Shorty Awards.

Here are their names and Twitter addresses:

 

Lee Semel@semel

 

Gregory Galant@gregory

 

Natan Edelsburg@twatan

 

Sawhorse Media@sawhorse

Thank you for your support

Finally, I thank you for your support, and I feel

very sorry that this company has decided to treat your vote as worthless. They

should be ashamed of their actions. They have harmed the reputation of

NaturalNews and insulted us all. They need to hear from you what you think

about their actions.

 

Imagine their surprise when they start receiving a flood of email complaints

from thousands of REAL PEOPLE who they offended by deleting their votes. We

have been victimized by blatant vote fraud here, folks, and now's your chance

to say something about it.

 

The contest itself doesn't matter that much. What matters is the principle. Don't let them get away

with censoring natural health advocates and treating you as if you don't even

count.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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