The other shoe has dropped.....
Eric
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/bu...q=Pepsi&st=cse
http://tinyurl.com/2eelsqm
New Charges of Cheating Tarnish Pepsi Fund-Raising Contest for Nonprofits
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: January 5, 2011
Pepsi Refresh, the online fund-raising contest with a $20 million giveaway for charitable causes and nonprofit groups, is again receiving complaints that its results are being manipulated.
A few nonprofit groups say that recent winners have used a mysterious service to propel themselves into the winning ranks, and complain that the practice breaks Pepsi’s ban on proxy voting and on votes from international locations.
“I feel like we were cheated out of a win,” said Ann Goody, a founder of the Three Ring Ranch, an exotic-animal sanctuary in Kona, Hawaii, that participated in the contest for many months. “We worked our hearts out with e-mails, phone calls, Facebook, kids handing out candy canes at Wal-Mart and then we find out our win was stolen from us by people breaking the rules.”
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