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Poll: 60 per cent of respondents think City of Powell River should accelerate its paving program with COVID restart funds

Majority of residents keen for road upgrades
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The Peak polled 346 readers and asked the question: Should City of Powell River add COVID-19 safe restart reserve funds to its paving budget to accelerate its paving program and fix some roads this year?

The poll ran from 7/27/2021 to 8/4/2021. Of the 346 votes, we can determine that 209 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 58.38 % total, 60.29 % local    
No 41.62 % total, 39.71 % local    
  Local   Total

This result provides for a 95% confidence level +/- 5.2% margin of error in the local community.

The Peak uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.