Detecting double-voting (was [Zope] Zope Community Awards Results)

[Tim Wilson]

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

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