Unique IPs in a voting system

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The Unobtainably-Perfect: (Unique Govt Number)

  • User votes using a verifiable unique identifier like a social-security or passport number

The Close-Enough-For-Reality: (Email/3rd Party Auth)

  • user registers an account with an email address and password (or google/facebook)
  • 1 email address = 1 vote
  • Users can’t clear cookies and get extra votes, App doesn’t shut 1000’s out with shared IPs

The Good-Thought-But-False-Pretense (IP addresses)

  • Office buildings: 1000’s of users on the same external IP get shut-out
  • Universites: Connect to wireless in classroom. Vote. Move to next classroom. Reconnect and vote again

The Crash-And-Burn (Cookies)

  1. Vote
  2. ctrl shft del enter
  3. vote
  4. repeat

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