People's Millions

[yrieithydd]

mair_aw has just posted about supporting Sustrans UK's bid in the People's Million. I tried as one of the projects if very close to my work and being able to go over to Penarth would be fun, but the stupid website won't let me register because it tells me that the security code is wrong. I can't work this at all. I wonder whether it doesn't like Firefox.

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My pants are polka-dotted

[mair_aw]

I wonder whether it doesn't like Firefox.

Gosh, that would be a bit pants. I'd expect people to test websites with Firefox by now. It worked okay in Opera/Linux, fwiw.

How much weight do you will think will go to online voting vs phone voting anyway?

[yrieithydd]

I've just managed to register at work using IE. Amusingly I have at least 3 current email address. What's to stop me registering each of them? And phoning up?

[mair_aw]

presumably you would have to invent a name in each case. Otherwise basically nothing besides your own integrity? I am not sure how their IP-address checking works ... what if I'm,say, behind a uni proxy?

(I own a domain, I could in theory register as many email addresses as I can be bothered to type in captchas for).

I suppose one would hope (?) that the proportion of people who cheat in that kind of way is approximately consistent across all the projects so that it just scales the results rather than skewing them.

[lionsphil]

1. General terms

1.1 You will be allowed to vote only once (1) with a UK email address from a UK IP address (server located in UK), or a recognised UK landline number or a recognised UK mobile phone number. Any votes received from more than one of the above will not be valid and will not count towards the final vote.

Say hello to shonky geolocation and NAT woes.

Anyway, worked here in Opera/OS X.