FoxNews.com doesn't have technology to prevent visitors to its site from casting more than one vote or, as Bromberg said, a billion votes.
Some other news sites, however, do have safeguards to try to stop someone from voting more than once. MSNBC.com tracks users' IP addresses and CNN.com downloads a cookie onto users' computers. Of course, this doesn't mean that an enterprising Bush or Kerry supporter can't use another computer or internet address.
Dean Wright, MSNBC.com's editor in chief, said that an estimated 2.4 million visitors participated in its poll after the first presidential debate and slightly more took part in the vice presidential one. Traffic on those nights was four times higher than on a typical night. Wright doesn't think it's a problem for a journalistic site to have a poll that is used as part of a candidate's public relations campaign.
"What is happening now is certainly a sign that the web has firmly arrived as a medium that politicians have to take seriously," Wright said. "Both Democrats and the Republicans see the web as another place for them to fight the spin war. They are going to fight it in all mediums that they can.
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65319,00.htmlLooks like you can vote in the FOX polls as many times as you want!