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From: ronse@prlb2.UUCP (Ronse)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: how to avoid vote fraud?
Message-ID: <804@prlb2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:55:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: prlb2.804
Posted: Thu Aug 29 14:55:19 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 09:21:39 EDT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratory Brussels
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Some people have asked in this newsgroup how one can be sure that a voting
on the creation of a newsgroup is not rigged.

I once conducted such a vote on eunet.jokes (european counterpart to
net.jokes). In fact, when I posted the results of the vote, I gave the e-mail
address of each voter and the corresponding vote Y/N. So each voter could
complain if I misrepresented his/her vote, made a counting mistake ,or forgot
to include him/her. (I received no complaint of this nature.)

Of course, someone can always encourage his ``friends'' to massively vote yes.

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