04-07-2007, 03:24 PM
So stuffing the ballot box is legal, as long as a computer program didn't do it, huh?
A while back the State of Washington had an online poll set up. I think it might have been to vote on a design for the State quarter, although it seems like it was more recent than that. Whatever it was, they discovered the "winner" had been chosen in about the same way as Random Access won this contest. The stakes were bigger, so they tossed out the whole thing and set up a more secure voting system.
What surprised me about this vote was that their system did detect that something strange was going on when I was casting multiple votes. I got a pop up that said my access would be blocked, but yet I was able to get back on in a few minutes and vote again.
And, Markintosh, if the word combo is correct, the Macresource thread already pops up first in a Google search. Whatever methods those directors use to examine the results of polls like this should be expanded to include Google searches. It only took me two tries to get the Google results, by the way.
I do hope they don't snatch the victory away from you, although, on the other hand, maybe that is what should happen. Yes, I did participate, but I also learned my lesson; I'm a lowdown cheat and should know better.
A while back the State of Washington had an online poll set up. I think it might have been to vote on a design for the State quarter, although it seems like it was more recent than that. Whatever it was, they discovered the "winner" had been chosen in about the same way as Random Access won this contest. The stakes were bigger, so they tossed out the whole thing and set up a more secure voting system.
What surprised me about this vote was that their system did detect that something strange was going on when I was casting multiple votes. I got a pop up that said my access would be blocked, but yet I was able to get back on in a few minutes and vote again.
And, Markintosh, if the word combo is correct, the Macresource thread already pops up first in a Google search. Whatever methods those directors use to examine the results of polls like this should be expanded to include Google searches. It only took me two tries to get the Google results, by the way.
I do hope they don't snatch the victory away from you, although, on the other hand, maybe that is what should happen. Yes, I did participate, but I also learned my lesson; I'm a lowdown cheat and should know better.