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Hi to all...I am playing around with a voting database and was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas.

I want to make it so that no one person can vote more than once. No matter how many time they re-enter the poll.

It is supposed to be annonomys

Heres what I have

tblResturants
fields are the 13 different resturants in our area
all field data types are a yes/no

frmPick A Resturant
Shows all the resturants - w/check boxes...you can only pick one by default, and there is a close button that saves the data and closes the database

Problem - if you close the database...you can open it and do it again...
I want to prevent that from happening. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Jul 19 '07 #1
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ADezii
8,834 Expert 8TB
Hi to all...I am playing around with a voting database and was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas.

I want to make it so that no one person can vote more than once. No matter how many time they re-enter the poll.

It is supposed to be annonomys

Heres what I have

tblResturants
fields are the 13 different resturants in our area
all field data types are a yes/no

frmPick A Resturant
Shows all the resturants - w/check boxes...you can only pick one by default, and there is a close button that saves the data and closes the database

Problem - if you close the database...you can open it and do it again...
I want to prevent that from happening. Any ideas?

Thanks!
The only way I see this happening is that each individual User will have his/her Log Ons, then the process would be relatively simple.
Jul 19 '07 #2
missinglinq
3,532 Expert 2GB
As ADezii said, you obviously have to have some way to identify who has already voted, whether thru a UserID/Logon, a SSN or whatever, then compare this each time a person tries to vote to verify that they haven't already voted.
Jul 19 '07 #3

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