This email was received in response to the Telegraph's inquiries into an unusual number of votes a recent online reader poll received from a single IP address in Austin, TX:

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From: J. Ryan Earl [mailto:ryan@********com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:46 PM
To: Michael Brindley
Subject: Re: Nashua Telegraph Web poll

It is certainly about time you realized you had no mechanism in place to prevent people from voting multiple times, I was wondering how long it would take you to notice. I made no attempt to hide it, I could have proxied the requests off of countless IP addresses across the world.