I don't think Carl or anyone else was suggesting that anyone should
hack the duck hunting poll on The Age website! What we're saying is
that online polls are fraught with problems - even those that are
scripted to disallow a second vote from the same computer can be
hacked by anyone with scripting knowledge. One way of making these
polls a little more verifiable is requiring every voter to leave a
name and comment - at least that makes it difficult to generate
multiple votes from one source, though not impossible.
I maintain my original belief that the poll result was hacked to give
a high pro-hunting vote. But the hunting lobby could just as easily
claim that the 40% of anti-hunting votes were hacked and that there is
a far smaller voice against duck hunting. Who knows?
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org
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