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Article: This hack tried but couldn't connect Internet ballot stuffing apparently didn't make Boston's Nomar Garciaparra (left) an American League All-Star starter ahead of the Yankees' Derek Jeter (right).
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1999
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The worst suspicions harbored by Yankee
fans were true. In an attempt to swing the close vote for the
American League's All-Star shortstop in Nomar Garciaparra's favor, a
25-year-old computer hacker from Carver, Mass., cast around 25,000
votes on the Internet for the Red Sox star on the last day of
balloting.
But relax, Red Sox fans, your man apparently beat Derek Jeter of
the Yankees fair and square. The computer police entrusted with
sniffing out corruption did their job, according to Alex Tam,
director of Major League Baseball's web site (mlb.com). Chris
Nandor, who used a computer programming language to circumvent limits
on how many times a person could vote on ...