All Star site gears up for hackers

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All Star site gears up for hackers

Voting site set to filter fake votes

By Michael Meehan
05/26/2000 Major League Baseball's (MLB) All-Star Game has been taking
great pains to make sure fans don't hack, hack, hack for the home
team.

Last year, MLB collected 1 million online ballots -- the most since it
kicked off electronic balloting in 1996. The organization hopes to
double that number before this year's July 2 deadline, according to
MLB spokesman Pat Courtney.

But All-Star officials are trying to reach that goal without a repeat
of an incident last season where a fan from Carver, Mass., tried to
stuff 39,000 votes for Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra
through the online balloting system(see story).


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