The latest articles on DEV Community by Ali Khan (@alikhan21). https://dev.to/alikhan21 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3937690%2Fb316bc24-0ebc-4def-9de1-9388454c8d69.jpg https://dev.to/alikhan21 en Ali Khan Mon, 18 May 2026 09:43:53 +0000 https://dev.to/alikhan21/one-person-one-vote-the-technical-struggle-of-web-poll-integrity-bed https://dev.to/alikhan21/one-person-one-vote-the-technical-struggle-of-web-poll-integrity-bed <p>Picking our poison: The trade-offs of tracking<br> IP-based fingerprinting<br> Hash the voter's IP to restrict votes to one per IP.</p> <p>Except not really. A university campus shares one public IP. An entire office behind a corporate NAT looks like a single user. You just locked out hundreds of legitimate voters. On the flip side, anyone with a VPN rotates their IP in seconds and votes again.</p> <p>It works well enough for casual polls where the stakes are low. 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