Alberta PCs ditch 'Wild Rose Country' slogan on new licence plates

[photon]

Oh here's the direct poll URL if it helps.

https://polldaddy.com/poll/8170848/

[lazypucker]

Do we need a Wannamaker campaign here for voting number 1?

[Regulator75]

^^^ Yes, yes we do.

[ae118]

How is Option 1 not winning? Option 2 looks like a bunch of fog rolled in and you can't see a damn thing except some ground and some mountain peaks. I don't understand how it's winning. Option 3 looks like it's from a cartoon.

[pylon]

LOL, I was waiting for the heavy hitters to chime in, nice.

Aug 19th is a long ways off....this is going to be epic if CP can affect a government policy.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by ae118

How is Option 1 not winning? Option 2 looks like a bunch of fog rolled in and you can't see a damn thing except some ground and some mountain peaks. I don't understand how it's winning. Option 3 looks like it's from a cartoon.

People have horrible taste in design.

The thinking of the average slack jaw in central Alberta is probably. "Them there mountains look like a real photo-picture. Just like I seen em. That one is the goodest. Imma punch my vote into this $1.00 a day MDG internet machine I ordered off the moving picture tube and let me voice be heard!"

[Regulator75]

It's probably the other provinces trolling us.

[Regular_John]

I've gotten part of the way there, I'm able to check option #1 using this as a bookmarklet:

javascript:jQuery("#PDI_answer37166779").attr('che cked', 'checked');

The #PDI_answer37166779 is the ID on the first radio button, and from what I can gather the "vote" button being loaded on the Alberta Gov site has a consitant ID of #pd-vote-button58765... or at least it is for me.

But the ID on the polldaddy URL seems to be generated dynamically, but there is actually a form there.

Also, hello to our new friends from the NSA.

[photon]

Lol I dunno why I'm still looking at this.

Ok the input for the radio button for the first option is:

<input id="PDI_answer37166779" type="radio" value="37166779" name="PDI_answer">

On the page there's a hidden field:

<input type="hidden" value="413" name="pz">

The vote button also has some JSON in it:

<a class="btn btn-primary btn-large vote-button" data-vote="{"id":8170848,"o":"0","b":"1","m":"0","at":" 20","t":77954,"v":0,"e":604800,"n":"93b0bc3dbb8a69 9bf87ed9e90814b60d"}" style="cursorointer;">Vote</a>

And from what I can tell the vote URL that is generated is (combined with the related JSON from that particular page view):

{"id":8170848,"o":"0","b":"1","m":"0","at":"20","t ":74472,"v":0,"e":604800,"n":"6b06da420e9913271bc8 ed630b379935"}
/vote.php?va=20&pt=0&r=1&p=8170848&a=37166779%2C&o= &t=74472&token=6b06da420e9913271bc8ed630b379935&pz =137

{"id":8170848,"o":"0","b":"1","m":"0","at":"20","t ":77954,"v":0,"e":604800,"n":"93b0bc3dbb8a699bf87e d9e90814b60d"}
"/vote.php?va=20&pt=0&r=1&p=8170848&a=37166779%2C&o= &t=77954&token=93b0bc3dbb8a699bf87ed9e90814b60d&pz =413"

So in the URL to submit a vote, looks like "p" is the poll ID, "a" is the ID of the option to vote with (37166779). "t" looks like some kind of timestamp, which is in the JSON in the tag of the vote button. No idea what "e" is but doesn't seem to change. The token is a random number for each page refresh (a nonce it's called), so one can't just submit URLs without getting a new random number each time. "pz" is the number from the hidden field.

Enough there to write a script to get a page, scrape it for the necessary values, then GET/POST or whatever to the vote.php URL.

[pylon]

Good work guys. I'm just the sales department for this thing, keep up the good mathing or whatever it is you are doing.

[nik-]

I like the second one. Apparently I'm a moron as a result

[Regular_John]

Possible Success!

1) Go to:
http://jsfiddle.net/zLPtu/
2) Grab the code in the bottom left hand window, the one marked javascript.
3) In Google Chrome (possible safari) create a new bookmark and paste the code from above in it. Give it a coolname like Wannamaker
4) With Private Browsing or incognito mode visit the direct polldaddy URL:
https://polldaddy.com/poll/8170848/
5) Click on the Wannamaker bookmarklet
6) Repeat as needed

Seems to be working for me, but can some one else confirm for me?

[pylon]

LOL @ program name.

[photon]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

I've gotten part of the way there, I'm able to check option #1 using this as a bookmarklet:

javascript:jQuery("#PDI_answer37166779").attr('che cked', 'checked');

The #PDI_answer37166779 is the ID on the first radio button, and from what I can gather the "vote" button being loaded on the Alberta Gov site has a consitant ID of #pd-vote-button58765... or at least it is for me.

But the ID on the polldaddy URL seems to be generated dynamically, but there is actually a form there.

Also, hello to our new friends from the NSA.

There's a function vote(D) {} in the community.js that composes the URL, the D is the onclick event when clicking on the Vote link (it's not an actual submit button). Can you just create an onclick event and call that function and pass it in? No idea what bookmarklets are

[photon]

Oh and I've read that polldaddy likely does have some flood control, so best to keep your votes spaced out.. every 10 seconds or something.

Wonder if this would force them to change the poll to limit by IP addresses.

[keratosis]

The Russians are paying us back for Wannamaker.

[photon]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Possible Success!

1) Go to:
http://jsfiddle.net/zLPtu/
2) Grab the code in the bottom left hand window, the one marked javascript.
3) In Google Chrome (possible safari) create a new bookmark and paste the code from above in it. Give it a coolname like Wannamaker
4) With Private Browsing or incognito mode visit the direct polldaddy URL:
https://polldaddy.com/poll/8170848/
5) Click on the Wannamaker bookmarklet
6) Repeat as needed

Seems to be working for me, but can some one else confirm for me?

Seems to work for me, but you still have to close and re-open the Incognito window. If I block all cookies in Chrome from polldaddy.com I shouldn't have to close the incognito window then should I? I could just hit your bookmark over and over.

I tried that and it doesn't show I've voted either, but I think the voted message comes up as a result of the cookie.

EDIT: Maybe I'll make a program to vote automatically, but I should probably try and push it through some proxies, randomize the intervals, stuff like that.

[Dion]

I have no clue as to what you guys are doing but I hope it works in the end.

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by photon

Seems to work for me, but you still have to close and re-open the Incognito window. If I block all cookies in Chrome from polldaddy.com I shouldn't have to close the incognito window then should I? I could just hit your bookmark over and over.

I tried that and it doesn't show I've voted either, but I think the voted message comes up as a result of the cookie.

EDIT: Maybe I'll make a program to vote automatically, but I should probably try and push it through some proxies, randomize the intervals, stuff like that.

Yeah an automated program would be the way to go, seems to need about 2-3 votes to move the % up a point (eg: 39.89 to 39.90), so my bookmarket is a tedious game of opening/closing windows as a result.

[Joborule]

Should ask for some support from our neighbours at Beyond to help out on the good fight.