[Husker] Your Vote Can Bring GameDay to Lincoln

[Nick Chevance]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com

I was amused by the message about the 'integrity of the vote.'  Based
on the little conversation on this list, there didn't seem to be much
concern for any integrity in the voting.  If you can vote as many
times as you like, what do the results really tell you?

I'll also chime in on the Facebook voting, which is something I just
don't participate in.

Nick

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