Rhino
04-13-2006, 10:20 AM
Script Kiddies Hack Washington State Quarter-Design Vote
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. — 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.
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................http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191357,00.html
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. — 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.
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................http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191357,00.html