D.D. 01/11/06

If anyone has any advice on how to ensure that website visitors do not flood polling, I would sure like to know it. The poll that I have been featuring on TNPoliticsBlog.com is obviously sub-par in dealing with flooding -- as you can delete your cookies and revote -- again and again and -- well you get the idea.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to better operate web polls without getting into fixed identification, etc? I saw it setup as a Flash application once, but I assumed that might be too complicated. If you used IP address to fix the number of votes, that solution probably won't work with either high speed or dialup connections, because either way you could refresh your IP.

Are there any other ideas out there? And do you know of any good scripts to run polls directly on a server -- perhaps tied to a postgreSQL server?