2010-12-13 Julian Assange: Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010

TIME magazine has just closed the Person of the Year readers' poll. Megan Friedman summarized the results: "Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place. He was 148,383 votes over the silver medalist, Recep Tayyip Ergodan, Prime Minister of Turkey."

TIME editors' official choice for Person of the Year will be announced on Wednesday morning on the Today show.

WL Central would like to thank all of you who chose to make a statement by voting for Julian Assange.