Index: work/feature_poll/pcb-rnd-poll.cgi
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--- work/feature_poll/pcb-rnd-poll.cgi	(revision 1588)
+++ work/feature_poll/pcb-rnd-poll.cgi	(revision 1589)
@@ -41,6 +41,36 @@
 # someone is a tester if choice is < $tester_thrs
 tester_thrs=2
 
+url_decode()
+{
+awk '
+	function cd(n)
+	{
+		chr=sprintf("%c", n);
+		if (chr == "&")
+			chr = "\\&"
+		code="%" sprintf("%02x", n);
+		CODE[tolower(code)] = chr;
+		CODE[toupper(code)] = chr;
+	}
+
+	BEGIN {
+		for(n = 1; n < 256; n++)
+			cd(n);
+	}
+
+	{
+		tmp = $0;
+		gsub("[+]", " ", tmp);
+		for(c in CODE) {
+			gsub(c, CODE[c], tmp)
+		}
+		print tmp
+	}
+'
+}
+
+
 fix_ltgt()
 {
 	sed "s/</\&lt;/g;s/>/\&gt;/g"
@@ -290,24 +320,27 @@
 	then
 		error "you got the captcha wrong, please try again."
 	fi
+
+	export QS_email=`echo "$QS_email" | url_decode`
+
 	if test -z "$QS_email"
 	then
 		error "you need to provide an email address to vote, please try again."
 	fi
 
-	email=`echo $QS_email | tr -d -c "@a-fA-F0-9._-"`
+	email=`echo "$QS_email" | tr -d -c "@a-zA-Z0-9._-"`
 	if test "$email" != "$QS_email"
 	then
-		error "invalid character in email the email address."
+		error "invalid character in email the email address"
 	fi
 
-	cfn=$db/cookies/$QS_email
+	cfn="$db/cookies/$QS_email"
 	cookie=`cat $cfn`
 	if test -z "$cookie"
 	then
 		if test ! -z "$QS_cookie"
 		then
-			echo "$QS_cookie" | md5sum > cfn
+			echo "$QS_cookie" | md5sum > $cfn
 		fi
 	else
 		uck=`echo "$QS_cookie" | md5sum`
@@ -317,6 +350,8 @@
 		fi
 	fi
 
+	export SES_EMAIL="$email"
+
 	cmd_list
 }