I'm not sure, but something might have been screwed up, in that regard.

Speaking from my own experience, I would come back to that thread occasionally, to ckeck on the tally. After my initial vote, coming to the thread would show the results, instead of the ballot. Then, a few days ago, (after the vote had been going on for a while, and seemed to be winding down) I came to look at the tally, and, instead of seeing the results so far, it asked for me to vote in order to see the results.

I thought, "Whaaaat? Had my vote had been deleted, since I had said (In a post) that I had originally mis-voted? Had all the voting accidentally been reset for everyone? Wasn't it pretty much all decided, now, anyway? I just want to see the results."

Anyway, I thought I better try again, and so I did. (And, reading through the thread immediately afterward, I saw that the results were through, and the decision had already been made, in any case.) Anyway, I wasn't trying to place multiple votes, but I can see how perhaps some bug in the program confused people into doing so. Something was weird there, at the end...

Mike