<P> New7Wonders of the World (2000--2007) was a campaign started in 2000 to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments . The popularity poll was led by Canadian - Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland, with winners announced on 7 July 2007 in Lisbon . </P> <P> The New7Wonders Foundation claimed that more than 100 million votes were cast through the Internet or by telephone . Voting via the Internet was limited to one vote for seven monuments per person / identity, but multiple voting was possible through telephone . Hence the poll was considered unscientific . According to John Zogby, founder and current President / CEO of the Utica, New York - based polling organization Zogby International, New7Wonders Foundation drove "the largest poll on record". </P>

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