That perl script is ridiculously easy to defeat with just a little bit of randomization in the way the quiz is delivered.
They could have set some pseudo-randomizing value into the user's cookie, like the timestamp mixed up with the requesting ip address, encrypt the option IDs using that as the key, pass the key back with the rest of the quiz, and decode the answer on the server side.
The script kiddies could still parse the whole page looking for the name of their contestant, but that would be more of a pain to write, and much slower to execute as well.
Anyway, this whole "awards" site is obviously so amateurishly built as to be complete crap from the get-go. The results are completely meaningless, no matter what they do for the rest of the contest.
-q

Ahhhh....what a surprise...the Clinton defense...

"I did it because I could"

That's some moral compass.

First off, I didn't do anything, so don't go talking about MY moral compass, you muck-loving parasite.
Secondly, the whole poll is utterly without validity by design. They obviously never intended it to count for anything, from the minute they started.
"I did it because I could," was never a defense. It was an apology, and an explanation, and it was morally right of Clinton to finally open up and provide us with one.
-q

Someone mucking around with an online poll????! Who will tell the children?

Q,

If you want to rationalize cheating be my guest.

It just goes to show that loony left concerns about valid voting are a fraud. To their credit, some of the Kossacks were as appalled as I was by this behavior. Too bad you were not among them.

O,

There is absolutely no difference between mucking around with an online poll and, say, cheating on a term paper, or stealing pencils from a blind man. Mucking around with online polls is a sin and those who do it will be damned to hell for eternity.

If you had a proper respect for all things holy you would know this but as another godless liberal the best we can do is pray for your lost soul.

Bob: I really hope your comments to O were an attempt at satire. Now we're damming people to hell for an eternity? Keep it up bud, you're losing credibility exponentially with every post...

Well since Oliver is a godless heathen he doesn't believe in hell so what does he care.