[Husker] Your Vote Can Bring GameDay to Lincoln

[Mike Jaixen]

The whole suggestion that people could just enter in an e-mail address as the only means to validate a vote was absurd and showed a complete lack of inexperience with how these promotions work.  It'll be interesting to see how ESPN salvages this contest.  My guess is that they revamp it with a new process where you register and validate your e-mail address (to prove that it's an e-mail address that is real).  They'll need to block all of the "temporary"/"one-time" email services that exist, of course.

As for the votes that already came in?  It depends on what kind of logging, if any, they used to record voting.  They may be able to go through their records and flush all of the bogus robot-generated votes, if they captured the IP address of the computer used to submit the vote.  Of course, if they weren't smart enough to log that information (and the track record of this contest would indicate that they aren't smart enough), they may just have to toss all of the votes from yesterday.
 
Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com


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 From: "Killmar, John" <John.Killmar at STJUDE.ORG>
To: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Your Vote Can Bring GameDay to Lincoln
 
Just as Jon Johnston predicted, the site is not functional now.  The following message is now displayed:

"We've been overwhelmed with the fan response!  We're taking time out to ensure the integrity of the vote.  Check back for updates."

John Killmar

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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 7:28 PM
To: Kathy Jackson
Cc: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Your Vote Can Bring GameDay to Lincoln

> I just voted and NC state has over 500,000 compared to our 55,000?  What the........

Maybe that explains why they pulled the ability to vote via email?

I don't use Facebook, so I am unable to vote.
--
Mike Nolan

> Kathy Jackson
> On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Killmar, John wrote:
>
> > I was able to vote three times with different addresses.  It did stop me when I tried to register with one of those addresses again.
> >
> > John Killmar
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