As some of you probably have noticed, last week's poll have been a close race between Linux and Windows NT among our users. Never since the 2000 presidential election in Florida has a race been this close.

Or was the race that close? Our investigative team have uncovered a dark and henious plot...without reverting to court room antics.

We present for you photographic evidence of ballot stuffing in our poll. Someone voted many times for the Windows NT alternative, because he could. We left ourselves totally open for this.

Our problem is this, we could either authenticate the voters by keeping track of their cookies or by keeping track of their IPs. We chose cookies.

The choice was based on the fact that in organizations using firewalls only one IP may be exposed to the rest of the net, thus a group of users behind that wall would get only one vote. By using cookies each user could get his own vote.

Unfortunately people who turned cookies off could vote several times. Which leads us to our problem.

In the image below you can see the results as they appeared on our website when we closed the poll:

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