The Monster Raving Loony Party Polling Well

Comment on General Election 2017 by David.

The voting on this page was a bit strange yesterday.

We’ve had:

900+ votes for the Monster Raving Loony Party
300+ votes for the British National Party (BNP)

And a couple of hundred for other political parties.

As this is an open poll that doesn’t require registration or anything it’s open to cheating if you know what you are doing, which is why I keep an eye on the votes and if I ever see clear cheating I’ll delete the votes (until now there was no indication of serious cheating).

So yesterday there was apparently 900 Monster Raving Loony Party supporters, 300 BNP supporters (I’m 99% confident those are real votes BTW!) and about 200+ for the rest (popular day for this page).

The 900 Monster Raving Loony Party votes could in theory be from real visitors, but for reasons I won’t go into (as whoever did it would learn to hide their tracks better) I’m reasonably sure they are fake votes.

So I’m going to delete them.

I’m very impressed with the Monster Raving Looney Party comments to make it look like there was hundreds of visitors voting for that party, whoever did the fake votes did quite a good job of making the votes look real, though did make the mistake of posting the same comment twice from different IP’s :-)

I’m really curious how this was achieved because I made some subtle changes to the poll to try to trip up automated voting scripts yesterday (I find it hard to believe someone would vote manually 900 times over many hours, starting at a handful of votes a minute to tapering off to a few votes an hour in the early hours of the morning!) and the votes kept coming in.

I know how it can be done, but the changes I made should have resulted in votes to another party if it was automated (I switched the answers around) or no votes at all (I replaced the o’s with 0’s for that entry) in the possible ways I suspected, but that didn’t happen. So I’m scratching my head at how this was done in an automated way? If it was manual voting, now that dedication to being a Raving Loony ;-)

David