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Poll result: Richmond News readers split on legalizing sex trade

There wasn't much to choose between readers when it came to the question
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The Richmond News has recently published a couple of stories about the sex trade in massage parlours in the city.

We polled 364 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Should sex work be made legal in massage parlours?

The poll ran from 2/10/2022 to 2/14/2022. Of the 364 votes, we can determine that 89 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, they should 37.08 % local, 41.21 % total    
No, not at all 51.69 % local, 45.60 % total    
Not sure 11.24 % local, 13.19 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 5.13%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News 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.