He used the term in British newspaper The Independent on July 23, 1995 to show how easy it was to rig a phone-in poll by voting nine times.

In a phone-in poll in 1999, the song was voted best Australian song of the 90s.

In 1996 the pageant held a phone-in poll asking the public to weigh in on whether or not the Swimsuit competition should be continued.

Ravens, after Poe's famous poem on the torment of lost love, "The Raven," beat out Americans and Marauders in a phone-in poll of fans.

'Buffoonery,' Cuomo Says Asked today about the phone-in poll, Governor Cuomo said: "I think it's kind of sad.

More than 4,000 people responded to a phone-in poll by The Dallas Times Herald, and 64 percent were against the new plates.

It also occurs in situations of voluntary response, such as phone-in polls, where the people who care enough to call are not necessarily a statistically representative sample of the actual population.

In 2007 angry 5Live listeners forced a phone-in poll about sympathy for Madeleine McCann's parents off the air.

They finally had to resort to a phone-in poll to resolve the matter.

In a phone-in poll taken by USA Today soon after the memo was leaked, the plugmeister got more than 27,000 yeas to fewer than 900 nays.