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To: TigerPaw who wrote (205628)	10/7/2004 6:30:05 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578144

>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. Yes, Bots could probably not have been involved in this effort... it was the mass e-mailing, all the way. -Z

To: TigerPaw who wrote (205628)	10/11/2004 7:11:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578144

Somtimes online polls don't track IPs but just add a cookie (and don't let you vote if you don't accept the cookied) however people can delete the cookie, or can vote more than once in different browsers. Of course its still hard to vote, delete, vote, delete, ect. that many times. Sometimes bots can be used to take control of other computers and vote. (not everyone has a very secure system). Also whichever side is better at getsting out the word about a particular poll is the most likely to win if there is no cheating (or the cheating isn't massive). Such polls really don't tell you a lot. Even without cheating they can be manipulated, by a "get out the vote" e-mail campaign. Tim