Votebot
(Software)
Tech
What is Votebot?
A votebot is a type of Internet bot that aims to vote automatically in online polls, often in a malicious manner. Votebots attempts to act like a human, but conduct voting in an automated manner in order to impact the result of the poll. A variety of votebot programs, targeted different kinds of services from normal websites to web applications, are sold online by individuals and groups. Like Web crawlers, a votebot can be customized to perform tasks in various environment or target different websites. Simple votebots are easy to code and deploy, yet they are often effective against many polls online, as the developer of the poll software must take this kind of attack into account and do extra work to defend against it.