An online poll to decide on moving a village's allotment site has been scrapped after suspicious votes flooded in from Russia and around the world.
Organisers claim gardeners opposed to re-locating the plots in Bearsted, Kent, manipulated their IP addresses to repeatedly cast votes against the project.
Bearsted Parish Council's £100,000 proposal would see the allotments moved, creating more plots, while extending a nearby car park and providing two new tennis courts which would be paid for by Bearsted and Thurnham Lawn Tennis Club.
The number of allotments would be increased from 27 to 48, while toilets and a dementia-friendly and children's garden would be added at the new site.
But a poll to decide on the idea was taken down within two days after organisers noticed a flood of votes coming in from around the globe.
Opponents of the plan are accused of rigging the poll by using IP addresses from countries such as Russia, Albania, Australia, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica and Cyprus to increase the number of 'anti' votes.
The Support Bearsted Community Projects website said within a day of its poll opening, a 'no' vote was being submitted every 30 seconds 'for a sustained period of time'.
Bearsted and Thurnham Lawn Tennis club chairman Mike Laurenson, 52, said: 'Regrettably we have been forced to shut down the Support Bearsted Community Projects voting consultation.'
Tony Grieve, 74, said he feels he and another plot holder are under suspicion as they are the only two to publicly oppose the plans (Pictured: Mr Grieve with wife Sandra)
He added that there was 'hard evidence of it being abused by one or more persistent individuals from the opposing side who have fraudulently manipulated their IP addresses in order to submit large numbers of votes in their favour'.
He said: 'It was 90% in favour of the project and 10% against.
'One of the rules we had stipulated was two votes per IP address, so two per household.
'But all of a sudden, from around 8pm on Monday, "no" votes were pinging through from different IP addresses.
'They were coming from Australia, Albania and all sorts of places.'
The vote was due to run from Monday last week until August 3.
But it was declared null and void after the IP addresses from around the globe were found to have been used to vote against the scheme, known as Project A.
An IP address is a computer's unique number that identifies it on the internet.
It can be changed simply by unplugging, and then plugging back in, your router while on an IP-checking website.
There are also so-called VPN applications which can change your computer's address.
Both sides claim the opposing party has been circulating false information.
Tony Grieve, 74, said he feels he and another plot holder are under suspicion as they are the only two to publicly oppose the plans.
The number of allotments would be increased from 27 to 48, while toilets and a dementia-friendly and children's gardens would be added at the new site (Pictured: Current allotment site)
Mr Grieve, of Cross Keys, Maidstone, whose wife Sandra joins him tending the fruit and veg on his allotment, said: 'We know of one plot holder who was away on Spain. She voted which she is quite entitled to do.
'So that IP will have come from abroad... they have made these allegations, but they have not named names.'
He says he will not keep his plot if the changes go ahead.
He added: 'If we lost the allotments, that would be it because it is a stressful situation, really.'
When the row first flared in June, Mr Grieve said he and other plot holders had not been properly consulted.
'Talks would have been going on for months,' said Mr Grieve, a former member of Bearsted council.
'When rumours started, we inquired about the plans and it was categorically denied, and then - an hour or so before the announcement was made - we received an email from the council.'
Mr Grieve, who has set up a 'Save Bearsted Allotments' Facebook group, added: 'They are talking about it taking two or three years.
'But, to be fair, some of the allotment holders are a similar age to
