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Proposals/Logo Contest/Ballot Box Stuffing

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First batch of multiple votes, November 11 (copied directly from Recent Changes at the time):

The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 14:00 . . TomO (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 13:57 . . Connolly (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 13:55 . . Alatini (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 13:52 . . Maximus (Talk | block) (→Votes)

Server IP logs:

216.*.205.19 13:52:52  (13:52, Maximus)
216.*.205.19 13:55:02  (13:55, Alatini)
216.*.205.19 13:57:34  (13:57, Connolly)
216.*.205.19 14:00:23  (14:00, TomO)

Second batch of multiple votes, November 12 (from recent changes, etc)

The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 00:19 . . Lore (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 00:17 . . Twiggeroo52 (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 00:12 . . Wildberry (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 00:10 . . KMurphy (Talk | block) (→Votes)
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 00:04 . . KGrew (Talk | block) (→Votes)
216.*.205.35	TheBigW      12/Nov/2005:16:37:58
216.*.205.35	Lore         12/Nov/2005:16:19:12
216.*.205.35	Twiggeroo52  12/Nov/2005:16:17:20
216.*.205.35	Wildberry    12/Nov/2005:16:12:25
216.*.205.35	KMurphy      12/Nov/2005:16:10:25
216.*.205.35	KGrew        12/Nov/2005:16:04:02

These votes came from the same Class C:

216.*.205.48  PATSI        05/Nov/2005:20:50:07
216.*.205.77  Dave         11/Nov/2005:12:21:47
216.*.205.99  WeeMan       04/Nov/2005:19:01:40

Third batch of multiple votes, November 16:

The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 01:28 . . Trey
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 01:25 . . Fozzy
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 01:22 . . Duce
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 01:20 . . Herm
The TV IV talk:Proposals/Logo Contest; 01:18 . . MasterCard

Final batch of multiple votes, November 17:

01:51 . . Azwoz
01:49 . . Wilco
01:48 . . Bopster

All of these came from the same IP. Timestamps were generally edited on the voting page itself to appear that there was at least 20-30 minutes between votes, when they in reality voted about 2-5 minutes apart.

The final total was 18 stacked votes, all under woz.m's entry. PATSI, Dave, and WeeMan were left in since their IPs were at least partially unique. The final count was biznatchio - 49, Woz.m - 66, which when the stacked votes were removed came to biznatchio - 49, Woz.m - 48. The decision was made by the admins to remove all votes by accounts with zero edits other than their vote in the logo contest and see how the totals came out. CygnusTM sorted through all the votes and threw out any where the voting page was the only edit. The final total was biznatchio - 35, Woz.m - 29.