Let me explain what's going on.
In an effort to keep GBO spam free Super Global Moderators monitor new membership and try and sort out spammer IP'S and deny membership before they can post their garbage.
I don't know the full technicalities of the process but the grossly simplified version is every Internet Service provider-ISP has an Internet Protocol address- IP address. George works in this field so if you need a full technical explanation contact him.
Recently it was noticed that there was a rash of new members coming from the same IP address. Normally this wouldn't mean much more than they all had the same ISP. What was noted was the ISP in this case assigned each customer it's own unique identifier and all these new log on's came from this same unique IP address.
It was also noted that each of these new members logged in one time and only did one thing, voted in the poll.
After some more research we determined that each new member was a different person, probably work colleagues. It wasn't the same person logging on
There is no problem with having your family and friends log on and vote for your picture. It helps generate new members, and that's great.
I encourage everyone to tell the friends and family about our board. If all they do is vote, well and good. If they look around and join, that's even better.
So get out the vote! Sign up your friends and family.
Dan go to Google, type in ACORN and select NEWS you will get the story.