But the purpose of the polls on his website is to draw casual passersby deeper and deeper into his clutches until they finally stumble onto the 'donate' page, or the 'signup' page. Weasley can just ignore those 'hits' he doesn't believe are legit.
Not only that, but nearly everyone from FR will go to that site by clicking on the LINK in post#1. That will instantly alert Weasley's computer geeks that the person CAME FROM FR! There is lots of other info about us that could be revealed to Weasley's team... And for those of you who rely heavily on MicroSoft windows, AND Outlook, AND Internet Explorer, it might even be revealing your name or email address to him.
Check for yourself what kinds of things are revealed about yourself when you visit a website, by going here to this privacy analysis site.
Note when you look at the analysis, it will KNOW you came from FreeRepublic, and you should look to see if your name or email-address appears in the output.
Oh, and let's not forget Weasley has access to Axciom corporation's data mining databases, so his geeks could cross reference his visitors to things like their incomes, party registrations, and addresses.
Nearly everyone who has broadband gets the same IP address each time they go online. Also, people who use things like AOL messenger have their CURRENT IP address logged into a lookup table each time they go online. When you click on Weasley's site, he could use just the IP address alone to lookup other stuff about you.