>>How do you keep track of who has voted?

I don't keep track who has voted what but the voting script allows only one vote per PC so one has to take some effort and know how to trick the system to cast multiples vote.

Can it be cheated ? Yes, when you know how, but if you really want you can cheap at almost anything.

Alot of preprocessing goes on before the vote is put to the forum. By the time the actual vote is on the forum I have a pretty good idea what the general mood around a particular vote and what voting turnout is to be expected. When the voting completely contradicts this general mood then I have tools to find out what happened and can take appropriet action.

But up till now all the voting on this forum has been done with honesty and fairness. We haven't encountered a manipulated vote since we started using this voting methode. I do understand however that when the class growths beyond a certain size that an improved methode is required.

We did use an different methode in the vote on the complete F16 rule set in nov 2002. I used sailnumbers then as guard against doublevoting.

But for now the current methode is dependable and fair

Wouter