It still has a small hole if you have a dynamic IP system and every time it changes, you can vote again. I wish the site just permitted members to vote once.
Kenneth - N5VHO
-----Original Message----- From: Gregg Wonderly [mailto:w5ggw@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:56 AM To: Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] Cc: sarex@AMSAT.Org Subject: Re: [sarex] Re: Packet and Crossband repeater
Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] wrote:
I tested the system to verify the validity of the poll and voted a few
dozen times during my check. It is not the honest hams that concern
me.
It is the one person that voted 700 times trying to sway opinion.
So the from IP address is recorded as part of the HTTP transaction for each form submission. Thus, the results reporting could, in fact just take the last vote for each IP address and report such results. Thus, it wouldn't have to complain about duplicates. But, if you voted repeatedly and saw the numbers changing per your voting attempts, then it's clearly not configured to be smart about taking votes only once for each IP address.
Gregg Wonderly W5GGW