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Originally Posted by dman1200
Um, is there something wrong with the website? It doesn't even give me a chance to vote. No voter icons. :roll:
BTW, no I haven't voted yet.
It is IP based, so if you are trying to do this from work, it is likely that your job only has 1 IP (many only have 1 and are behind a router).
What this means is that someone at that IP has already voted. The rules for this suck. A better way would have been to a secure encryption / 1 way hash, which would allow each person to vote, and only vote one time. The problem with that approach is key delivery and some method of validation upfront of who you are, and that you are not using multiple "personalities".
That is why they call polls like this "not scientific". In other words, they do what they can to minimize cheating by "fair" people. Yes, some get caught in the cracks, which it sounds like you have.
Also, like EVERY law, cheats and criminals WILL subert the system. Thus, there will be many who double, triple or 100x vote in a poll like this. As another example, look at DC and handguns (all guns?). You can not possess one at all in the city limits AT ALL, unless you are LEO, HOWEVER, the crooks don't play by the rules and KNOW that law abiding citizens are unarmed, and thus DC has one of the highest gun weilding voilent crime rates around.
H.