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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (205538)10/6/2004 8:20:45 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578098
 
RE:"I never put much credit in online polls. However, I don't think of them as BOTs"

Ted, the BOTs (in this case) are the little programs invented to vote on online polls. Like 10,000 votes a minute. Kind of explains the 83-17 vote for Edwards on the CBS poll or any or the 90-10 ones.

The BOTs bypass the polls' browser recognition software allowing unlimited voting?



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (205538)10/7/2004 10:50:59 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578098
 
little programs invented to vote on online polls.

Online polls (at least the ones used by major networks) won't accept multiple votes from the same IP.

It would require a BOT with 10,000 different IP addresses just to get through your 1 minute window.

There may have been an effort to "stuff the box" but it would require in your example 10,000 different computers who were angry enough at Bush to coordinate their votes.

TP


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