Because of the law's inconsistent application across regions and the challenge
posed by precedents, foreign lawyers in China must pay special attention to government relations.
Obviously polls like this do
pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done
by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a
precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.