Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:32:51 +0930, Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating
Dragon) <dragon@...> wrote:

> As Paul says, at real elections they record who has voted without
> recording how they voted, but in this context there's a few problems
> with that. Suppose someone *does* vote twice, but the second time they
> enter a different name. AFAICS, you can't detect that unless you have
> a list of people who are eligible to vote, and if it *does* happen
> then you have to discard *all* of the votes because you've got no way
> of knowing which vote was submitted by the duplicate voter.
In which case, you resort to the HTTP logs of the server to see at which
time the bogus name was used, and which vote was cast during the same GET
(or POST) operation, and discount both. If you like, you can get a good
idea of which real person cast the bogus vote from the logs, too.




Paul