[KwartzLab] Vote to give grants to hackerspaces

[JR Nelson]

I wouldn't quite say it's a sham. It is not too difficult to detect
suspicious voting by all but pretty sophisticated mechanisms. That said,
it's definitely possible to manipulate the results, but letting 'known
experts' do the voting can make the public just as unhappy, since they'll
feel slighted and that the judges weren't fair.

I'm not certain there's a great answer either way. Regardless, this is a
bit tangential to the subject at hand.  :)

J.R.




On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Karl Williams <karlw at thinkbotics.com> wrote:

> Exactly. This whole 'vote online' and get money thing is a sham.
> There's no real way to validate someones identity online. A person could
> hijack the contest by autogenerating thousands of fake users and emails
> and then using them to vote for the winner every day. It would be better
> if a panel of known experts and peers made the decision about who gets the
> money.
>
> > Not to mention it is trivial to change it, even if it were easy to get.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Lamothe
> > <jonathan at jlamothe.net>wrote:
> >
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> >> On 12-06-04 08:52 AM, Karl Williams wrote:
> >> > I don't understand why they would let the same people vote multiple
> >> > times. It should be 1 vote per MAC address.
> >>
> >> For starters, it's impossible to get someone's MAC address over the
> >> Internet.
> >>
> >> - --
> >> Regards,
> >> Jonathan Lamothe
> >>
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