"Prominent Political TV Host" Poll Center

I'm surprised this trick still works, I bothered them with it like a year ago, and it works as of a few days ago. In fairness, the site has a disclaimer that says "These polls are not scientific. Only one count is counted per visitor".  This turns out not to be the case. Anyway, in my usual style, it's simple JavaScript edits with a few goals in mind for the poll center of this site:

To Do:

1. Sway the results of closed archived polls
2. Make the poll results add up to less than 100%
3. View the results of a poll before it is aired on the show

You can see this as a product of poor data sensitization. Messing with FireBug Firefox extension causes permanent data changes on the server that no one seems to notice or care about. So if you're a developer, may this be a lesson you never have to learn in production - sanitize input on client side and server side.

1. Change archived poll results

Simply change loadArchivePoll to loadPoll. That's it.

<div class="Pollwrap">
              <div style="padding: 5px; cursor:pointer; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;" class="pollArchiveItemOff" id="pollArchiveItem0_0" onmouseover="" onmouseout="changeBackgroundClassArchivePoll('0','0', 'Off');" onclick="loadArchivePoll('0','9337','0');"><span style="display:block;">Make a prediction - will Attorney General Eric Holder resign?<br>May 30, 2013</span></div>
</div>

 

2. Polls that add up to less than 100% 

This effect can be easy triggered. If the radio button's value  attribute is edited to something not in the given values in the multiple choice survey, it won't be counted.

<input type="radio" value="Fake value." name="surveyAnswer">

3. View the results first

Okay, I'm leaving this one as an exercise for you! Trust me, it's as trivial as the other two hacks. Hint: take a poll legitimately, and figure out where the form takes you to view the results.