Despite the fact that this diary is short, I thought it's important enough that it should stand by itself, and not get lost in an open thread comments.
Markos just put a post to poll the community on whether him and other bloggers (The Blue Majority) should endorse.
Well, without realizing I wasn't logged in, I voted, and in haste, voted wrong. Then I thought about making a comment, but realized that I wasn't logged in. But the system had tabulated my vote (by updating the totals) just the same.
Then I logged in and realized that I still have the vote button available. So I voted, and sure enough, the system tabulated my second vote as well.
Now, my concern is this: this seriously questions the integrity of the voting process. First, people can vote at least twice. (presumably, if I log on a different computer, I could even vote three times??) Much more importantly, if the system doesn't depend on checking my userid to let me vote, then basically anyone can freep the poll!!
And is it possible for a party to just mimick a different IP address each time and vote multiple times?
Update: changed the diary title for more clarity.