The Apple Valley couple behind the controversial birthornot.com website say they have closed the online voting on whether they should have an abortion.

After the couple discarded more than 1.6 million votes that Pete Arnold said were fraudulent, 74 percent of respondents said Arnold and his wife, Alisha Arnold, should have the baby.

If the “fraudulent” votes were included, the vote tipped overwhelmingly in the other direction.

Pete Arnold told CNN a few weeks ago that the couple never intended to have an abortion. But Alisha Arnold wrote afterward she believes in abortion rights and had been conflicted about giving birth. The differing views on the subject were part of the reason for starting the website.

Alisha Arnold wrote: “So although my feelings about this pregnancy and Baby ‘Wiggles’ have changed during the time that the website has been up and I don’t believe I could go through with an abortion now, it doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in a woman’s right to make that decision.”

— Jessica Fleming