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The IP address thing rings a bell. I think they said there were two ‘clusters’ of voting irregularities, one at Cambridge University, the other at Strathclyde University. They allowed the Strathclyde one because it was in the band’s hometown. I’m confident that a large portion of the Strathclyde cluster was me hitting refresh on a lab PC during my lunch hour.
rodan
That too was me
They took no email, so weren't detecting duplicates that way.
They set no cookies, so didn't prevent double voting.
The only thing that could detect duplicates were the IP address, but it's 1998 and every time you log on to the internet with your modem you get a new IP address 🥳
That was basically all that I did, tell two mailing lists comprising 25,000 fans about this.
(Well, that and set up two mailing lists that accrued 25K fans whilst few other artists or labels had even made websites).