Washington State Quarter Voting Hijacked
One of the candidate Quarter designs in the running to
be the next official Washington State 25-cent piece.
be the next official Washington State 25-cent piece.
Duh.
An AP newswire article by Curt Woodward, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Talk about your two-bit schemes. Robotic computer programs stuffed the online ballot boxes in a contest for Washington's official state quarter design over the weekend, forcing technicians to suspend voting Monday while they retooled the Web-based poll.More here.
State officials overseeing the balloting realized something was fishy when the poll, launched last Thursday, swelled to more than 1 million votes during the weekend.
The State Quarter Advisory Commission initially allowed an unlimited number of votes from a single Internet address so family members sharing a computer could each register their favorite, spokesman Mark Gerth said.
But that philosophy was abandoned after the weekend's voting, which showed some computers casting repeated choices for a quarter design faster than humanly possible.
posted by Fergie @ 4/10/2006 05:27:00 PM
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