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We’ve yet to get a ruling from Katherine Harris, but Shoptalk smells a rat—or, actually, a duck—in the online vote tallies for Adweek’s Maddy Awards.
Red flags went up when we saw a huge spike in votes cast in one category—”Best Use of an Animal”—with the Aflac duck getting 95 percent of the total. A little e-sleuthing revealed thousands of ballots with just the single vote for the duck and all other categories blank. Analyzing traffic to our site gave us a clue as to why: Some 2,100 of the 6,500 ballots cast came through the IP address 209.37.4.38,
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