Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Subject: Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alan Dayley wrote:

> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > On Friday 20 April 2007 14:46, Michael Havens wrote:
> >> Forgive me for speaking where I have little knowledge but could the links
> >> send a new email to either of two new accounts. The new accounts being
> >> 'vote yes' and 'vote no'? so then just a count of the messages in the box
> >> would tally the vote.
> >
> > That would work. However, how do I keep some one from voting 10 times?



Only use their final vote.

(If I read earlier message right, it is email based and you know their
email addresses.)


> The web page with the link would include the voter's browser user agent
> string and IP address in the voting email. Then filter the votes to
> count each user agent and IP address only once.
>
> Not perfect but probably close enough.


Jeremy C. Reed
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