Don't sell ESPN short, UGA man. They really ARE dumb.
No, what is really irking people here is the mathematic impossibility of Bryant catching and then passing TO in a matter of several days. The lead at one time was upwards of 20% for TO. If you're correct in that each ISP gets only one vote per day, that lends even more credibility to the argument that there are some shenanigans going on with those percentages, since it would be nigh on impossible for Bryant to suddenly acquire that many more unique votes than Osborne in that short of a time span.
The reality is that if they wanted to have this little poll have any credibility whatsoever, even the vestiges of credibility, they would isolate ISPs and allow one vote per, period. Instead they encourage abuse of their little voting process and you get tihs situation, where people are launching macro blasters to pump up the votes. So yeah, ESPN really is pretty dumb.
But what else is new?
i was going to say, it is extremely easy to trick a computer into letting you vote more than once.