Found a problem with the “Who will you vote for in the 2010 general election poll” and other polls to a lesser degree on the site.
The polling plugin is far from perfect, but as long as no one went out of their way to manipulate the results it should give a fair result.
I’ve known for sometime some of the votes are from proxy servers, these are websites that hide the visitors IP address and since it’s the IP address that stops a visitor voting multiple times, proxies can be used to vote multiple times.
From the log files connected to the poll plugin I knew the odd person was using various proxies to vote extra times (mostly pro BNP votes), but it didn’t look like it was a major issue (thought it was well under 100 votes which I could ignore).
I was looking through the sites raw log files (so not the plugin log files) and noticed a pattern that eventually led to discovering a lot more votes from proxies than I first thought! I’ve not worked out the exact number yet, but it could be as high as 1,000+ votes in the main poll!
Going to look at the log files in detail and figure out where the votes went and remove them from the various polls if I can. Since the votes came from proxies over time there’s no way to know how many people are involved, though based on the times for the votes (tended to be around the same time each day) it looks like one very dedicated person making a vote on about 10 proxy servers almost every day since the middle of November 2009!
At a first look there’s been about 2,200 votes for the BNP since the middle of November and at least 500 and possibly as high as 1,000 are from the proxies! I will have to delete those BNP votes after I get an accurate number.
Also any more votes from proxies will be deleted, (I’ll check every couple of weeks) so if the person responsible is reading this: pack it in!
David
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