Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Internet voters have new target in Most Popular Driver award

Now that a pair of websites found a loophole to manipulate the voting in last week’s Sprint All-Star race, they now have set their goals for a loftier goal – taking down Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the Most Popular Driver award.

Dogecoin and reddit.com, fresh off a stunning victory that earned Josh Wish a spot in the sport’s all-star race last Saturday at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, already are laying out plans to flood the internet with votes for a driver who’s never had a top-10 finish in 79-career starts.

By using steps to get around the intended format to vote for the all-star race, a group of fans were able to rig the vote – one fan voted as many as 82,000 times – to get a starting spot in the all-star race. According to reddit.com, it boasted of being able to get its “shibes” to get Wise 98,000 votes in the final 11 hours of the balloting.

The same web site now wants Wise to beat Earnhardt, who’s won the most popular vote for 11 consecutive years. According to reddit.com, Wise supports the project.

The voting format for the most popular driver award was posted on the web site, with suggestions of how to beat the intended system again. (Florida Times Union)

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