Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 3/18/2008 at 01:04, Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 23:42 +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > To prevent fraud I think it's enough to forbid a person to register twice as 
> a 
> > voter or to give access to the account to other persons in the terms of 
> > service. Of course technically it's possible to do that, but if somebody is 
> > trying to affect results of a vote this has to be done in such a massive 
> way, 
> > that it's probably not too hard to detect that and to deactivate fraudulent 
> > accounts. I also don't think it's very likely that somebody tries to affect 
> > elections this way, as without the backing by the community being in the 
> > board isn't associated with any particular power or benefit.
>
> Is it possible to implement a system by which the election software
> registers your IP address, so e.g.: if you have an account and vote
> once, it logs your IP address so if you log out on to another account,
> but you're still using the same IP address, it won't let you vote?

Even though this would be technically possible, you might exclude complete 
school campuses in some regions. Just imagine the first one from there has the 
possibility to vote, all the others, as most likely they use the same proxy / 
internet access will be identified to come from the same IP Address... and I'm 
not sure blocking out students will be a good start ;)

Dominique

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