The only evidence I could show that would be convincing is the

Comment on General Election 2017 by David.

The only evidence I could show that would be convincing is the sites raw log files then guide you though why the votes aren’t valid. This would give anyone seeing them access to private information: for example all the sites visitors IP addresses, which I’d never do (might even be a data protection infringement?)!

I’m 100% certain the 800 odd BNP votes I removed are votes via proxies and they are clumped together over a short period of time, strongly suggesting one person.

It’s the first time I’ve looked at the raw log files for this site, normally I just look at the logs via a log analysis program called Awstats, but the copy of Awstats on my dedicated server is out of date (I posted something about it here https://stallion-theme.co.uk/bing-search-engine-and-awstats-log-stats-analyzer/ last year: it’s not updating automatically via yum) and I was finding inconsistencies in the Awstat traffic reports (might be some traffic not registering in Awstats) compared to AdSense impressions.

The AdSense ads have their own ‘log’ type system and it’s reporting significantly higher traffic than the traffic I’m getting reported via Awstats. That in itself doesn’t prove Awstats isn’t working correctly since AdSense measures impressions which is one load of an AdSense ad (so a visitor reading 10 pages gets 10 impressions, but in the sites logs it’s one unique visitor), but AdSense impressions is a lot higher than I’d expect relative to unique visitors reported by Awstats (2,000-2,500 a day).

So I was checking the raw log files for visitors not listed under Awstats and spotted a pattern. Still not figured out if Awstats is playing up as got sidetracked with the poll being manipulated.

I think I’ve shown over the past 6 months that though I don’t like what the BNP stands for I’ve tried to be fair: I could have lumped BNP in the poll with others when I removed all the small parties for example or delete all pro BNP comments.

I figured I’d get accused of messing with the poll figures from some of the more paranoid BNP supporters, which is why I posted in advance as a comment I’d found a problem. I was even trying to be fair by putting the comment on another page and pointing out I think it was just one BNP supporter at work not all of them.

You will just have to take my word for it, or not.

David