More seriously, I can't believe that firm would send an email to their employees telling them to vote. I know if I was building a voting application I would definitely track IP addresses of voters. And since their office is undoubtedly NAT'd, all of their votes would appear to come from the same address. And it wouldn't be terribly hard to match that address back to the company. Seems like a lot to risk.
Much smaller stakes, obviously, but If I'm remembering correctly, a NYC restaurant was busted for trying to stuff a Time Out New York poll with a simple script somebody wrote to vote over and over for themselves. I just mention that as an example of something that matters very little where IP addresses were being checked. You'd think in this case they would too...
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Much smaller stakes, obviously, but If I'm remembering correctly, a NYC restaurant was busted for trying to stuff a Time Out New York poll with a simple script somebody wrote to vote over and over for themselves. I just mention that as an example of something that matters very little where IP addresses were being checked. You'd think in this case they would too...
- jim 4-14-2004 1:52 am