Merger is mostly at corporate level. D2H and Dish TV are still separate services as users can only choose one at a time. If a D2H users chooses to receive Dish TV's satellite or vice versa, they are free to vote for those services. In future, when the forums are merged and satellites are merged, then we can consider a merger of polls. What happens if D2H services (STB, channel count etc) are better than Dish or vice versa? Shouldn't the consumer have a say in that? What happens if Dish and Videocon channel lists diverges too much? The benefits of channel addition in one service does not benefit users tuned to the other dish. A merger of poll will distort these problems.