On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:14:49PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:14:24PM -0400, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
you're correct that anonymous voting can never be trusted. that's why any product that implements this kind of polling should have mechanisms to detect and prevent ballot stuffing by itself. there's several ways to do it, like with cookies, or storing IPs, etc
How can storing IPs work? I dial up and have a different IP each time. Someone who uses several machines will have several IP's.
Add to this the problem of persons who work from behind a proxy. All outbound traffic from our entire organization appears to originate from the same IP address. We could have severe vote disenfranchisement here! :-) -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson@visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com