Voting System - Identifying Voter And Integrity Of The Vote
I am trying to setup a voting system for our intranet (staff awards - free text fields). I have the database adding the votes no problem. What I would like to do however is the following:
1. It's our intranet, there is no need for each person to login so it just uses "user/user". However I need to capture the person's login on the vote record so I can identify who voted.
2. restrict the users to one vote each. I have done some research and it looks like I have to create a cookie.
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