Alright, I was going to play this along a bit longer; but I decided perhaps I was waiting a bit too long.
First off, there IS a contest, and there IS a prize; but I am afraid a few candidates may be disqualified. As anyone could guess, vote-stuffing
is cheating, and will not be tolerated. I have been watching the "Latest Member" section of the forum and predictably discovered that vote-stuffing was occurring.
And there has been plenty of these in the last day or so.
I have discovered that the key requirement did not block users from voting in polls, and has been exploited by at least three candidates. I am not directly accusing the candidates of doing this, because some of their supporters could have been doing it. Just know this, if you were stuffing the poll with bogus votes to support yourself or someone else, you have just killed their/your chance of winning.
SirLancelot, Tetris, and Jetz have been disqualified by this month's admin-for-the-month poll. Next month I will have a better method for vote counting.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience and despise those who vote-stuffed the polls.