November, 2002
This was one of my more misguided plans, read my version of events here
BBC thwarts Britons vote rigging
The BBC has hit back at viewers' attempts to rig the results of its Great Britons series. The corporation says a "sophisticated method" has been used to multiple vote for Churchill, Darwin and Shakespeare, three of the 10contenders in the running to find the nation's greatest.
A spokesman said the BBC team monitoring the votes was "onto the culprits".
"Our team are constantly monitoring the votes to make sure nothing untoward is happening," she said.
"We did identify that people had been attempting to rig the voting but those votes have now been eliminated."
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2420623.stm