Referendum Social Removed 6,374 Suspicious Votes and Improved Poll Accuracy

Hi. We continue working on improving the website and making the polls as realistic as possible.

Suspicious Votes Removed

During October-November 2026, we found old suspicious voting activity on the website. We could not see exactly who was voting or how, but we noticed that there had been vote manipulation from some outside sources, where in a very short period of time, around 10 seconds, someone could vote in more than 10 different polls.

So we did the following: we removed all of those suspicious votes.

As mentioned above, this was around 6,000 votes. More exactly, we found 6,374 suspicious votes from 174 IP addresses. After removing them, 30,613 guest votes remained on the website. So we removed around 17.2% of all guest votes.

This was done only to make the polls more accurate, higher quality, and more realistic. We want to show real user activity and real opinions from people in different public opinion polls.

Better Poll Samples and Filters

During these two months, we also significantly improved how polls work and how user data can be collected for poll samples.

Before, an unregistered user could already vote in a poll. Now, after voting, they can also add more information to their vote.

After a guest user votes, they now see three additional steps where they can add information about themselves. First, they can select their sex at birth, then their age, then the region they are from.

This is a very important improvement for the website because it helps create a more correct sample and finally allows the filtering system to work properly.

For example, if there are enough votes in a poll, users can filter the results and see only votes from a certain state or region, only votes from women, or only votes from people of a specific age group.

This functionality was already available for registered users. A registered user enters this information during registration, and after that, every time they vote, their demographic information is automatically connected to their vote.

Now this also works for unregistered users.

We also added a message during these additional steps explaining that if you register, you will not need to complete the same information every time you vote in another poll.

New Statistics on the Homepage

We also added some specific numbers to the homepage.

These numbers show how many registered users currently exist for the selected country, how many polls have been created for that country, how many real votes have been submitted, and how many comments have been posted.

All of this information is updated every day. The website also shows the daily increase, so users can see how much these numbers changed during the last day.