I've got the same problem as the poster. It mainly affects people in the UK who use AOL, once one of them has voted, then no-one using that ISP can vote, they seem to share the same IP address. Hence I thought the above fix would fix it, as it sounds like exactly the same kind of issue i'm having.
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