ENnies voting booth now open!

Morrus · Jul 17, 2002

The ENies voting booth just opened:

http://www.enworld.org/booth.htm

It has some fairly draconian security measures - whatever you do, don't start voting until you are sure of your votes - you won't be able to re-enter once you have entered!

Please make sure you read the instructions first. You only get one chance!

Now, go vote!

Crothian · Jul 17, 2002

Nice an painless, Morrus. Hopefully we won't have the electronic version of the Hanging Chad here.

Mouseferatu · Jul 17, 2002

I can't vote!!!!

Morrus, there seems to be a problem.

I got as far as answering the first question. Then I got booted by the system, which told me that records indicate I'd already voted.

I hadn't already voted. I'd never before entered the booth. I'm not on a network. And nobody else uses my computer.

I realize it's probably too late for me, since I understand you can't alter the system for one person. But maybe you can help me figure out what happened, so other people don't get similarly--if you'll pardo the term--shafted?

Piratecat · Jul 17, 2002

Hmmm, I'm blocked as well. I tried to enter the booth and it told me I already voted - but I guarantee that no one from this IP address has voted yet. Might there be a problem?

Morrus · Jul 17, 2002

The votes are flooding in, so it all seems to be working OK. I'm no expert on IP addresses, but isn't it possible for more than once computer to share an IP?

I think what we're seeing here is the effect of stringent security. Unfortunately, it means that some legitimate voters can't enter the booth - but the alternative is a booth open to abuse/ballot stuffing.

Teflon Billy · Jul 17, 2002

It worked just fine for me

EricNoah · Jul 17, 2002

Yay, worked for me too!

CRGreathouse · Jul 17, 2002

It worked for me.

Hand of Evil · Jul 17, 2002

Well my votes are cast and I have to say I was hard picks on some of them.

Umbran · Jul 17, 2002

Morrus said:
The votes are flooding in, so it all seems to be working OK. I'm no expert on IP addresses, but isn't it possible for more than once computer to share an IP?

There are a couple of ways to effectively have two computers seem to have the same IP for this voting:
1)be on the same private network, accessing the internet through the same router/Network Address Translation box.
2)Both users using the same ISP that gives dynamically allocated IPs, and have it reallocate an IP used by one member to another. This would be extremely rare.

I can't think of too many others.