From: MaxFreedom@sws5.ornl.gov 
  
 Wayne Brown  writes: 
  
 > Raising the level of effort required to submit a perfectly *legitimate* 
 > vote even a little will stop many people from voting at all.  It's hard 
 > enough to get enough YES votes for a new group now, without adding more 
 > hoops through which voters must jump. 
  
 The required number of votes could be lowered if such a scheme were 
 adopted. 
  
 > I see nothing wrong with the current system, in which anyone and everyone 
 > can vote, and the UVV and the NAN moderators make the call in cases 
 > of suspicious votes. 
  
 I do: the result of the comp.os.linux.xbox vote, for example. The 
 "Stromboli" votes are as fishy as the FMJ votes but the powers decided 
 to exclude only the FMJ votes. 
  
 > After all, this isn't "Real Life"(tm), it's only 
 > USENET, and there isn't anything of critical importance hinging on the 
 > outcome of any particular vote. 
  
 That's true, but it doesn't justify leaving gaping holes in the 
 system. Why bother holding votes if the outcome is going to be 
 determined by fraudulent votes? 
  
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 Dave Sill                     Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support 
 Author, The qmail Handbook                 
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