[This thread ends here. -Perry]
At 11:57 AM -0400 5/31/00, Marc Horowitz wrote:
>While we sit here and talk about integrity of voting systems,
>receiptless systems, threat models, and strong crypto, I ran across
>this:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0%2C1510%2C16951%2C00.html
>
> Major League Baseball's (MLB) All-Star Game has
> been taking great pains to make sure fans don't hack,
> hack, hack for the home team.
>
> ...
>
> But All-Star officials are trying to reach that goal
> without repeating last season's incident when a fan from
> Carver, Massachusetts, tried to stuff 39,000 votes for
> Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra through
> the online balloting system.
MLB used to use (still does, AFAIK) punched cards for entries.
That never stopped determined people from getting a few thousand
cards and either punching them manually or running them through
a card punch.
There are stories (probably apocryphal) about players voting for
themselves several tens of thousands of times.
Due to contract conditions, getting named to the all-star team can
be worth $500K (in cash, immediately) to a player, as well as an
increased salary down the road.
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