If the following does not make sense please research first before asking questions.
All toplists work off a very simple system. A user goes to a page to vote for the a site, or the simple act of visiting the toplist acts as a vote. Toplists may or may not count these votes unless they are from unique IP's.
The situation where the user only has to visit a toplist is something like this:
The user clicks a link which points to a toplist, the users browser then includes the refering page in the request which is used by the toplist to identify where the vote is meant to go. Cheating this can be done simply by creating false requests with fake referers and using Proxies to simulate multiple IP's.
The situation where users have to correctly vote is generally like this:
The user follows the same method as before to get to a page which has something which requires the user to click on to accept the vote. In most cases this uses a POST method instead of a GET method to continue. The process of cheating this requires you to go through the form in HTML and identify what values are sent with what variable names. Yet again Proxies are used to stop suspicion.
All headers should be rotated to change such things as the User Agent.
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