{"id":17654,"date":"2010-05-23T22:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17654"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T04:06:41","slug":"now-only-registered-users-can-vote-in-weekly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/now-only-registered-users-can-vote-in-weekly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Now only registered users can vote in weekly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17655\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17655\" title=\"Haussamen, Heath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Haussamen-Heath1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While most people were asleep on Saturday night, someone or a few someones hijacked NMPolitics.net\u2019s weekly non-scientific poll. In a span of a few hours, about 800 votes were cast for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denniswmontoya.com\/\">Dennis W. Montoya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, the appellate judge race poll between Montoya and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votevanzi.com\/\">Linda Vanzi<\/a> was nearly tied.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time this has been a problem. Weeks ago, Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Joe Campos\u2019 campaign sent out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/campos-wins-non-scientific-poll-on-democratic-lt-guv%E2%80%99s-race\/\">a \u201cpoorly conveyed\u201d message<\/a> urging people to vote more than once in a poll \u2013 a message the campaign later said it didn\u2019t intend to be worded that way. And in December, a poll on the approval of state Auditor Hector Balderas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/12\/non-scientific-poll-on-balderas-manipulated\/\">was manipulated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the three times I\u2019ve caught it happening. I\u2019m sure there have been others I missed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too easy to manipulate online polls that are open to voting by anyone. People can bypass a simple system designed to allow one vote per computer by clearing their browsers\u2019 cookies after they vote.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, one person or a few people did that over and over and over and over again Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>That way of doing polling won\u2019t continue on NMPolitics.net. I don\u2019t know who manipulated the most recent poll and I\u2019m not pointing the finger at anyone. In fact, I probably share some of the blame for this. I\u2019ve allowed these polls to continue for quite some time understanding the potential for abuse and that other people took them more seriously than I did.<\/p>\n<p>No more. As of today, you have to be a registered user of the site to vote in the weekly polls. Each registered user will be allowed one vote. That doesn\u2019t totally prevent against future shenanigans, but it makes manipulation a lot more difficult. If this change doesn\u2019t stop it, I may discontinue polls entirely. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not a registered user of the site, you can become one by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-login.php?action=register\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of manipulation of this site&#8217;s non-scientific polls, from now on only registered users can vote. If that doesn&#8217;t stop the shenanigans, NMPolitics.net may discontinue polls entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-17654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-news-about-this-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}