DevShed.com has a new article posted today about something that the US Government might want to look into using - a Fraud-Proof Voting System (sorry, had to say it).

Setting up polls or voting systems is a great way to get users more involved in your website, and keep them coming back for more. But with fraud hanging over the professional political elections, how do you keep your visitors from screaming for a recount - or worse, stuffing the ballot box? Ian Felton describes a simple system for setting up an online poll and preventing abuses.

Most voting systems, unlike this one, are flawed to the point where their results don't really make much sense. With this technique, however, each vote is validated and checked against not only email addresses but also IPs to ensure that multiple voting hasn't taken place.

Not completely fraud-proof you say? Well, I'd agree on that note, but it still goes above and beyond in an effort to make it pretty difficult for someone to skew the results as badly as a normal voting system...