Ron Paul voters busted?

First of all, I hope everyone here will forgive me for arguing earlier today with our resident Ron Paul advocate. I'm ashamed that I acted like a 5 yr old, but at least I got the info that I was alluding to in our argument. Thanks goes to Evil Capitalist for the info...

"Phone companies make lots of money on SMS. SMS is probably the only profitable at any unit of measurement service wireless phone companies have on their networks. To encourage those interested in sending SMS messages to phone company customers, most of companies offer access to SMS gateways over internet - my program connects to SMS gateway and pumps out messages in a form of 'destination number'->sms message. I pay the phone company a fraction of a cent to access their gateway and whoever receives the message gets billed their per-message rate, typically somewhere between $0.05-$0.25 depending on a plan.

Pretty much every gateway allows its user to generate unique ids ( which in the handset-to-handset SMS messages are phone numbers assigned to the handset ). Since virtually every company doing vote-by-SMS polls is connected via a reverse gateway ( short message code ), process is reversed. So some enterprising person that has access to SMS gateway simply sends a pile of "votes" to the polling company's SMS gateway and with a few dollars he can vote a few hundred thousand times."