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Re:Proof of location for online polls by banana_giraffe on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:03PM (#42704542)
> Gaining control over a large number of devices in the target geographic region for submitting votes through those devices

Does AWS Lambda count as a machine for these purposes? If so, you can get a nearly infinite number of them just by cycling a config param and casting another vote.

Re:Proof of location for online polls by gavinsyancey on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:57PM (#42706448)
I assume they'd just ban the entire AWS IP block. And similarly for other cloud providers.