Voter fraud: Lionel Hutz vs. Mayor Quimby



The web site received roughly 12,000 new votes from 9 a.m. until noon PT on Thursday for this matchup. This pushed the total votes up to around 21,000, which far exceeded any other matchup's totals and created some numbers that just didn't jibe in our hit logs. Contrary to popular opinion, the ballot boxes were not stuffed by people "voting" again simply to check results -- multiple votes in that form were not tabulated.

Like most of you, we've marveled at how the traffic has increased. Unfortunately, some folks out there (we know who you are, or at least where you come from) decided to screw with a good thing. As our good friend Moe so eloquently put it, "When I find out who you are, I'm going to shove a sausage down your throat and stick starving dogs in your butt!" We started this site to have fun in our spare time, but if folks out there are going to ruin it, we'll take away the general voting and go back to a more restrictive system. Please, one vote per person...many people have money riding on this (not that we endorse that sort of thing).

The Tournament Committee respects the honesty shown by a representative from a New York law firm (that will remain nameless), who admitted to some form of attempted fraud. However, we cannot let such an act go unpunished. Therefore, the Committee has decided to block all votes from that firm for one (1) match...Lionel Hutz's Sweet 16 matchup (date to be determined). The Committee has spoken, and there is no appeal process. All complaints can be directed to that brick wall over there.

However, we do not believe that was the sole source of fraud. So if you're still out there, turn yourself in before we hunt you down.