I was reviewing the voting booth system today and was pleased with the performance of the system in catching cheaters. I noticed one account in particular had registered a respectable 1000 votes, but none of the votes were being counted because the system had flagged the account as a vote cheater. Sure enough, I check the logs and it was clearly a case of vote fraud.

Someone had registered a username specifically to vote many times on the day that they uploaded an image. Eventually the person's image would come up and the cheater account would vote high on that image. However, since the system automatically ignored all the votes the cheater was essentially just wasting his/her time.

I hope this gives some of you out there a bit more confidence in the system's ability to deter cheaters.