Don't worry. Your dissent was noted I'm sure. Something along the lines of "We got X number of emails about this." I mean, consider the existence of politcal fax/email/letter generators. If you haven't seen these, look into em, they're kinda neat.
Still, a letter in a sealed envelope has the most weight when communicating with elected officials. Emails and faxes are like spam to them, you just get ticked off as a number in a column. Same with written letters, but I've heard that column has more weight than the email and fax columns.
