Submission + - Is it possible to 'spam' a text message poll?
David Sudweeks writes: "First let me say that I would like to discuss the technical aspect of this question; not the political.
After Wednesday night's republican presidential candidates' debate on Fox, a text-message poll opened to determine who was thought to be the winner. As it was in progress, the news commentators suggested that the poll was being 'spammed' by supporters of the candidate who was winning it. Several of those supporters have spoken up recently to say that it wasn't possible to vote more than once. My question is about the possibility, and to a lesser extent, the plausibility of such an occurrence.
Wednesday night "dialing and redialing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx7Q8-5PtOs
Automated reply to a multiple vote attempt http://picasaweb.google.com/J.SkyWave/FoxPoll/phot o#5106934267659776466
Thursday "won overwhelmingly" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us9DAkxkQuA
It may also interest you to know that the results of this poll have not been published to the web as the previous one was. Instead, if you search Google for "new hampshire debate fox poll results" the top result takes you to the South Carolina poll results. The words 'new hampshire' don't appear on the page. And this in spite of the fact that the page description under the link reads: '...Who Won the New Hampshire Republican Debate on the FOX News Channel?'"
After Wednesday night's republican presidential candidates' debate on Fox, a text-message poll opened to determine who was thought to be the winner. As it was in progress, the news commentators suggested that the poll was being 'spammed' by supporters of the candidate who was winning it. Several of those supporters have spoken up recently to say that it wasn't possible to vote more than once. My question is about the possibility, and to a lesser extent, the plausibility of such an occurrence.
Wednesday night "dialing and redialing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx7Q8-5PtOs
Automated reply to a multiple vote attempt http://picasaweb.google.com/J.SkyWave/FoxPoll/pho
Thursday "won overwhelmingly" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us9DAkxkQuA
It may also interest you to know that the results of this poll have not been published to the web as the previous one was. Instead, if you search Google for "new hampshire debate fox poll results" the top result takes you to the South Carolina poll results. The words 'new hampshire' don't appear on the page. And this in spite of the fact that the page description under the link reads: '...Who Won the New Hampshire Republican Debate on the FOX News Channel?'"