Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

At 9:23 AM -0500 11/26/08, tedd wrote: Hi gang: What methodology would be the best for online voting? I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, but don't want someone to stuff the voting box. I have some ideas of my own, but would like to hear what you people woul

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:23 -0500, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > What methodology would be the best for online voting? > > I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, > but don't want someone to stuff the voting box. > > I have some ideas of my own, but would like to hear

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

You should probably also wrap a "vote" in a transaction, so a user is not locked out from voting unless you are 100% sure their vote got counted, nor vice versa. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang: > > What methodology would be the best for online voting? > > I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, but > don't want someone to stuff the voting box. Because this is going to be a member-

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

I once had to implement something similar for a client's intranet page. First we designed it to work without login simply by logging the IPs (static and in the 10.10.*.* range) to avoid people voting twice or more. Then the client wanted to have some statistics like what department voted for what (

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang: > > What methodology would be the best for online voting? > > I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, but > don't want someone to stuff the voting box. > > I have some ideas of my own, but woul

Re: [PHP] Voting methodology

You have to have them registered and logged in with their Union ID to have any accountability at all... Anything else is just to wide open to ballot stuffing. You will need to provide reassurances of anonimity, presumably, and possibly some process/permissions/control/authentication/author

[PHP] Voting methodology

Hi gang: What methodology would be the best for online voting? I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, but don't want someone to stuff the voting box. I have some ideas of my own, but would like to hear what you people would recommend. Cheers, tedd -- ---