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Best way to code a poll?

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:57 pm
by kinger88
Hi,

I need to build an online poll for some awards, and was thinking about ways to ensure people can only vote once.

Is it best to store the I.P address or is there another way?

Cheers

Re: Best way to code a poll?

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:42 pm
by josh
Ip addresses are easily spoofed, do you have questions as to how to incrementally accrue the statistics? Just store the total rolling # and keep incrementing it, for voting only once the most secure way would be to combine IPs with emails, require activation, ask for addresses & phone #s, have moderators skim over the signups and have the ability to revoke votes if they are found to be fraudulent... I guess it depends if this is for some poll on a forum, or if your system is being used to vote the new CEO for a corporation where you need heavy auditing, etc..

Re: Best way to code a poll?

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:54 pm
by kinger88
Thanks for the reply

These awards have been done before and some people managed to vote for themselves 500 times so i need to make sure this doesn't happen again

Will try it with email addresses and activation, then store the I.P too

Cheers