My Online Voting site, Recallballot.com, has been be up for less than four weeks and currently we getting over 500 voters per day and tracking them by their IP addresses.
So far we have a total of 16,800 votes - more than 80% of them with California IP's. To keep voters from double voting we have a proprietary address "lock-out" applet that accepts only 1 vote from each computer.
A voter could move to another computer to vote again, but we consider this to be an insignificant concern for two reasons:
1 - We do not announce that there is a blocking applet at work
2 - A second vote by a visitor is not rejected, per se, but merely discarded by our software on the server side
Frankly we're amazed by the results, but in honesty, this is an exclusive poll - computer users. When compared to the Media polls we are able to derive some interesting extrapolations.
Also, we've be lauded by most of the candidate's campaign personnel, who find the level-field satiric profiles to be a relief from the viciousness of the race, and an added benefit to normalizing user perceptions about the differences between candidates.
We are building a larger, more accessible voting platform software and site for the presidential race.
The future of voting is online... along with the future of comedy.
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