Re: opt-out registry comments

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:44, Hendrik Visage <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Mike Lawrie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ... an online poll that is configured so poorly
>>> to allow multiple votes from the same IP address?
>>
>> An online poll that blocks multiple votes from the same IP address
>> may well block a large number of students/pupils at educational
>> institutions from voting. Last time that I counted, some years back,
>> the tertiary student numbers alone exceeded 500,000.
>
> Well, just about every corporate will only be able to bring out a
> single vote, thus only one person from that corporate can vote... and
> what about a household with only one computer... can only one of them
> be counted?
>
> Thus just about any online voting system will fail... unless you can
> count every individual in a unique way.
>

Which is why some polls use cookies to record that you voted. Easy
enough to get round for any of us but most people woundn't know to
clear their cookie cache.

Simon

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