Why don't you just have it so you can ask any Mod? We're currently creating an IP list anyways so it would make this whole thing much easier with a private list already in place that just needs to be verified.
Your papers, please! If the forum moderators are tracking IP addresses for no good reason, don't know if I want to post here any more. Innocent posters who want to keep their anonymity intact neither deserve nor warrant having their IP addresses tracked for no legitimate reason. I also wonder whether maintaining such a list violates the terms of service of this website.
This bill is unworkable. Proxy is ill defined. What is or isn't a "legitimate IP address" is going to be left to unelected moderators, and extremely subject to abuse for political reasons. DSL providers (i.e. the telephone companies) don't provide static IP addresses to their customers. Is someone's vote illegitimate because the DSL provider just happens to assign a poster an IP address that's on somebody's spam list because someone else spammed from that IP address? That was the crux of the charge claiming Libertas was some sort of IP transgressor - and it's bizarre.
Banning voting or registering by cell phone is idiotic and serves absolutely no purpose. Some cell phone web browsers legitimately route traffic through their servers in order to speed up the web browsing process. There's nothing illegitimate about using one of those cell phone browsers to post on this forum or to vote, regardless of whether you're away from your computer.
By requiring IP checks, this bill treats us all voters as guilty until proven innocent - which is extremely abusive.
