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The posters don't use the word "vote".

I'm not sure that 37% response rate is correct. The interim report states that: A total of 7,180 consultation packs were sent out to 81 streets within the consultation area... We received 2,244 responses from residents and businesses/organisations within the consultation boundary... 418 responses were received from visitors to the area taking the total of responses to 2,662... The 37% figure comes from comparing 7,180 consultation packs to 2,662 total responses (2,662/7,180 = 37%). However packs were only sent to streets within the consultation area (I assume one per household but I don't know) but the total responses include those from outside the area. Moreover the report also states that "More than one response per address was accepted but duplicates removed where the same name was used" so it's not as if we can use the 2,244 figure either. I don't think we have enough data to know what the response rate was. I wish we could see the full data set, it's so easy to misrepresent statistics.