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::Assuming a reasonable number of people have "voted" then no, a single "vote" is not significant. It has a value, certainly, but that value isn't enough to change the result, so it's not significant. --[[User:Tango|Tango]] 20:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

:::I suppose theoretically, it would be conceivable that, in a very close RfA, someone with a serious attitude problem and who may deeply dislike the candidate could try to forge a vote (also by creating sock puppets, v.g.) in order to sway consensus and cause the RfA to fail — I mean, an 80% consensus is required for promotion, and, depending on how things are progressing, a single "oppose" can "offset" three or four "support" in terms of the percentage required for promotion. In theory, one single "oppose" can bring down to 73% or 74% (under the cut off for Bureaucrat discretion) a consensus that was at 75% or 76%. But then, back to what I said: something like this will not be allowed to stand — remembering that the original question was: would something like this possibly go unnoticed? Absolutely not. And all that notwithstanding (have I been using that word too much? :)), impersonation is unacceptable behavior under any circumstance, and if it's done in a place such as a RfA, it's that much worse. Whether or not the action had an actual relevance in the RfA where it took place is not essential in that regard. [[User:Redux|Redux]] 20:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

::::Redux, you are quite correct for a single fake vote. Let's assume an user has one non-detectable sock-puppet account (reason may be using different proxy or IP for sock-puppet account). He/She signs a particular RfA with one or two fake votes per user account. This adds total 5 signs from his/her side. If (s)he does this process in very beginning of a RfA. Let's say (s)he opposes by all these 5 votes and other users have signed 4 supports and 2 opposes. By adding this particular user's contribution RfA stats is (4/7/0). I am just guessing (not sure) other users may follow the same trend as majority opposes the vote and it may be converted to unsuccesful promotion while it was deserved a succesful promotion. It's just a virtual incident. So it may matter too much. [[User:Urshyam| <font color="black">'''Shyam'''</font>]] ^{([[User talk:Urshyam|<font color="orange">'''T'''</font>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Urshyam|<font color="red">'''C'''</font>]])} 21:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)