Is it just Gavyn and his mates who are so upset by this? Or those poor innocent people who spent a millisecond clicking a vote button? As pointed out at the time rules governing sales promotions meant the vote had to be pulled otherwise Electric pig & Asus would be facing a different accusation now so move on, get over it.

My God,

I always thought this level of incompetence and a total lack of regard of the voters was the sole domain of Politicians. Well done ASUS and "The Electric Pigs" you have proven beyond doubt that geeks like u r worse.

Please do us a favour and show the link detailing the voting rules regarding this competition where it states that only one vote per IP was permissable. I never voted but I am pretty sure that there were no rules or any link to the rules on the voting page.

I think its about time for u idiots too take your feet out of your mouth and admit you f*&ked up. Give all the bloggers the EE-PC and the computers they evaluated and so they can sell them all and get something that has the reputation of a good company behind it.

nowt to bog
thnx Sylv

Truth twisting at its best... Keep it on, ASUS...

First, they pull the plug on the obvious winner that didn't put ASUS in good light. All without saying a word of justification. Then, a major riot irruption that ASUS stupid PR department never saw coming. Then and only then, way after the facts, they pull a magic, half baked rabbit out of the bag. 8 IPs accounted for over 1600 votes. Sorry folks, that's justification enough to invalidate the democratic process, we are now taking over to correct this "mistake"...

I'm speechless. How dumb ASUS think the IT community is? Really, give me a F*cking brake, would you? There are at least a billion ways to secure voting online. Simple e-mail authentication would have cut 95% of the crap. You then just discard any dupes...

ASUS know all this, they are in the IT business themselves. Marketing and truth, PR and trust, are words that will NEVER mix together. ASUS just learned that it seems. I bet everything I have they will NEVER do that kind of promotion EVER again.

Oh, I almost forgot: F you ASUS.

Ramon

"This process has sound democratic precedent: it's what developed nations do to appoint the head of a small emerging country with strategic significance or exploitable natural resources."

Absolute classic :)

Why not simply remove any duplicate votes from the same IP, so it's a 1 IP = 1 vote.

I know lots of offices, etc. share IP addresses. Why didn't they take that into consideration. Surely, they could have set a cookie, or something to make it harder to vote twice. I know that's not fool proof, but it helps slow down idiots.

Anyway, I wouldn't want an ASUS if you gave it to me, unless I could immediately sell it again.