totally. that said, any input via electronic means becomes a defacto api. ( see “rest”, the get/post/put verbs of the web. )
short of associating a phone number, a credit card, or some other hard to generate personal identifier ( which has it’s own issues ) - any web based input will be abused. ( please let’s never vote via http. )
you might as well present the interface in a more formal way and gain a little information about who’s using it and how.
