Posted by Geoff Berrow on 11/16/05 16:54

Message-ID: <lmemn1d9120hnoiab7jo4ajv39s7l1urcm@4ax.com> from DNC_TN
contained the following:

>I'm VERY new at php. I was wondering what method I could use to
>develop a poll system where people could vote on something and I could
>count the vote and display results. Also, make it so that only one
>vote per person would count [yes I know some could use proxies to vote
>more than once, but at least get 99% of duplicates out of the
>results].

Is it s simple fun poll or something more serious?

I wrote the poll script at www.popculturemadness.com which uses a
cookie. OK, if you want to go to the trouble of finding the cookie and
deleting it you can vote again. But so what, it's good enough.

I've done other voting scripts that require a working email address,
where the vote won't get counted unless there is a resp[onse from the
email. There's also a cookie too and all headers are stored. No script
will totally prevent people voting more than once. But then, you can't
even guarantee that for political elections.

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