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Re: contest voting mechanism
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:27:39 GMT
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In the last episode I wrote:
> -Take votes using a web form
> -Email an authentication notice to an email address supplied by the voter
> -Voter clicks on a link to authenticate his votes (i.e. authenticate his email
> address)
> -Vote results page is *much* less than 805 meg :-)
> -Vote results are published with list of voters' email domains (e.g.
> hotmail.com, aol.com, msu.edu - not full email addresses) and possibly IP
> addresses
I could also use cookies to make sure that each computer was used for voting
just once. There are ways to cheat this, too, and it may prevent a couple
legitimate votes (e.g. family votes), but no system is perfect. This would
prevent an AOL user from voting from all 5 screen names, for example.
Or I could just mention in the vote results when multiple votes were cast from
the same machine. This would allow the practice, but large-scale abuse would be
evident.
Amy
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 | | Re: contest voting mechanism
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| Amy: (...) Generally e-mail authentication is a useful method, but there are some of us who have "a few" addresses (on different domains of course ;-). Having an annoying sense of what is right and wrong, I am afraid I might not use the possibility (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests)
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