The best way to do the check is to pick a time when most voters would be sleeping. I'm too old to try that one.
Mel
looks like it works the first few times...
alas it looks like one would need a proxy server, an anonymizer service, or as you mentioned a firewall that hides the last few octets of your IP address to properly spoof the voting system into tallying the votes.
I think I have half of it solved already, but I’ve only had a few minutes to work on this here and there, plus I’ve got other more pressing issues to attend to. So, I guess we just let them cheat this one (not that new ground is being broken there or anything. AHEM... “vote early vote often”). Sorry, excuse me - I must’ve had something caught in my throat there.