"Now pick up the phone and dial xxxx-xxx-xxx. Cast a public-opinion vote for the candidate you support, and you'll have a chance to win a grand prize!"
"A total of fifty thousand winning slots are available nationwide. The winners will be drawn from the registered incoming numbers, and every winner will receive two Credit Points."
"Among them, ten lucky viewers will win the super grand prize of one hundred Credit Points!"
"Call right now!"
The announcer delivered the advertisement in an exceptionally sweet and fluent voice. Calling it an advertisement was less accurate than calling it a public-opinion poll conducted as part of the program.
No one had ever done this before. This was the first time.
Thanks to the powerful computing capabilities of the Global Communication Platform and the support of its formidable team, Lin Qi had arranged this instant public-opinion poll segment.
In an instant, the telephone lines throughout the Federation briefly stalled, then became busy at a speed beyond anyone's imagination.
Fifty thousand slots seemed like very few—only one in two thousand—but if one considered that a family had four or five members, it was actually closer to one in several hundred.
Besides, some people might not call, while others might not know about it. The odds could very well be one in a hundred, or even one in several dozen! There were also ten super grand prizes, and one hundred Credit Points was no small income for any family.
Many families did not even have ten Credit Points in their bank accounts. One hundred Credit Points could absolutely be called a huge fortune!
The entire break lasted five minutes. Just before the program resumed, the public-support figures for that period were calculated. To everyone's surprise, Ms. Tracy's support had risen to fifty percent.
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