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NHL Investigating All Star Voting Spikes
by Alanah McGinley on 11/14/08 at 03:48 PM ET
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From CBC:
The NHL is investigating a suspicious spike in votes for Montreal Canadiens players in all-star fan balloting.
Fans choose the starting lineups for the all-star game by voting at NHL.com, and all six Canadiens on the ballot have huge leads in balloting for the Eastern Conference team.[...]
“I don’t want to jump to conclusions at this point. There is some indication that something has happened,” said NHL spokesman Gary Meaghar. “I’m not at a point where I can say definitively that something has taken place.”
Read on. And for more background, there are some links and comment that were posted yesterday at Red & Black Hockey and Canucks & Beyond.
added 5:12pm (Paul),NHL Statement…
We appreciate the excitement and energy the fans are showing for the All-Star Game and the All-Star voting process. While we encourage all fans to cast votes—even multiple votes—for their favorite All-Star candidates, the League has identified some instances of automated voting activity that expressly is prohibited by the voting rules and regulations. This situation is being addressed and we are in the process of validating all votes to make sure that they comply with the rules.
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Even captcha can be cracked, Forecheck. Just another example of how electronic voting is completely open to manipulation.
Posted by drimo on 11/14/08 at 06:00 PM ET
It only takes a few moments to take the code and copy/paste to alter the choices. Working in a write-in component, however, would take a while longer 
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 11/14/08 at 06:36 PM ET
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At least they’ve implemented a captcha (those squiggly letters you need to type in to prove you’re human) to foil the scripts for now.
Just when I was working on a Preds version, too!
Posted by Forechecker from Nolensville, TN on 11/14/08 at 05:06 PM ET