There are, I am sure, numerous stories like this. I know of a case where discussions and votes were conducted using a shared yahoo mail account -- a bunch of fo

There are, I am sure, numerous stories like this. I know of a case where discussions and votes were conducted using a shared yahoo mail account -- a bunch of folks would just log in and note their preferences in the draft email with subject "Vote for X". A single account, shared password (in theory one could erase/edit previous votes), but it worked just fine as the group was small and no one wanted to do mischief. The flip side of this is that beyond a certain size such initial designs are a killer. And a company should monitor time sunk into maintaining such things, prioritize those that are most expensive and fix them as soon as it can afford to. And this is often done way too late, causing harm that can be impossible to repair. My 2c.