I have been wanting to have a polls module on my site and I am concerned about making the poll results as accurate as possible.

As I understand it, the current polls module allow people to vote as many times as they would like. Poll Fraud would really mess up the results.

I began thinking of ways that this could be fixed.

At first I was thinking along the lines of requiring all voters to be registered. That still did not seem to fix the 1 vote per member issue. Plus, that would only work if you just allowed other registered members to vote.

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What if the polls module place a cookie that would live for a week or so on the voters computer?
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When some clicked submit,
Check to see if the cookie exists on the users computer here. This code won't work but...

/xoopspoll/index.php

isset($vote_cookie) {
echo ("You can only vote once per poll.");
};



Theoretically, that would only allow 1 vote per computer. While it would not stop poll fraud, it would greatly deter it.

Any ideas on this?

Anyone want to work on this with me if it's feasible?

That is what I meant to say above.

I thought that I had noticed the count incrementing up when I was working on it.