Allstar voting

Does anyone know how the system works? If I set up a macro does NASCAR.com block my votes? I know the discussion came up last year. Any official answer.

So far a few times a day I'll just vote over and over for 5 minutes. Thinking about setting up a macro on my home PC while I'm at work.
Is it a waste of time and won't get counted?

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Permalink Reply by Nena Patrick on May 1, 2009 at 9:12am

Who Knows. NASCAR won't even show results of who is leading the vote anyway or by how many. Last year they said they only had 300,000 votes in all and I find that very hard to believe. Last week they announced voting was up from that same point a year before and it was 30,000 last Wednesday.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on May 1, 2009 at 9:40am

If they only have 30,000 votes that probably means none of the macros work...

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Permalink Reply by MikeNIN7 on May 2, 2009 at 11:30pm

Miss info is a great tool, don't beleive nothing until you see it for you self.

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Permalink Reply by vak7 on May 1, 2009 at 9:55am

I've voted more than 30,000 times myself without a macro! Fingers are so cramped it's hard to throttle my VTX.

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Permalink Reply by Davin Wilson on May 1, 2009 at 11:24am

Question: With Robby being second to Kasey K last year, who is Robby’s biggest threat in the all star voting??

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on May 1, 2009 at 11:31am

I would imagine it would be Waltrip, Sadler, and Logano.. Plus, I would guess the Aussies are voting for Ambrose.

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Permalink Reply by roush699 on May 2, 2009 at 12:59pm

But as a past winner, Waltrip should not be in the running for the wildcard spot. He won in the 21 around '95.

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Permalink Reply by WJM on May 1, 2009 at 11:39am

TexasKevin it works like this:

All votes are collected and hermetically sealed in a mayonaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' back porch. NASCAR and Fox executives huddle in a 'safe room', tally the actual votes, and processes the results through a uncomplicated algorithm. The algorithm weighs driver popularity, swag sales, team prominence, quantity of ass kissing, quality of favorable comments towards the series, "ah shucks" feel good stories (bonus points if story includes impoverished dying child wearing a NASCAR t-shirt), and most importantly, the amount of dollars the driver's primary sponsor feeds into NASCAR as the 'official this or that' combined with the dollar amount of advertising buys the sponsor has committed to for race telecasts and other NASCAR programming.