What approach should be for open voting system

Question

I am working on a website that has car profiles. There is also rating involved for each profile. Now is there is any good approach to have authentic voting system without making user register?

for example.

there is a profile named 350Z Nissan. Now users would be allowed to rate it. How can I avoid Fake rating?

I thought that I should save IP address along with rating but what if there is single computer at home and many people use it?

What would you do ?

Please use the search. This question has been asked numerous times in different forms. Checking for the IP is one way to go. — hakre, Feb 03 '12 at 10:42
IP and Cookies are the ways to go for this, I recommend IP Addresses — Sandeep Bansal, Feb 03 '12 at 10:43
@sandeep what if you have 5 family members using same computer?if you puntch same ip only one can vote — Rafay Zia Mir, Feb 03 '12 at 10:49
@rafay use IP Adress and Cookies, check if the system has both the IP Address and Cookie, if not then add the cookie? — Sandeep Bansal, Feb 03 '12 at 10:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '12 at 10:46

Those are good steps to start:

One vote per 3/4/6/12/24 (your choice) hours per one ip for non registered users
Captcha for non registered users (prevents bots)
Limit number of registrations per day from one ip
Log every vote

You probably can't do anything more, you may also use cookies and create pseudousers (it'll filter out "lame users") but it's easy to work around.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '12 at 11:22

four things

use captcha
log every visit with all needed data
to be more prcise - use email validation ( i mean real email-address validation with mail-server - so they cant use fake emails --- there are methods available for that ) + one email can not rate same product twice.
do not limit rate per pc or ip... above three should be enough to avoid fake ratings

I think all covered in above - let me know if I am missing something..

What approach should be for open voting system

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