> For one, votes seemed to come in all the way through the voting period, and actually increased just before the deadline. That doesn't seem surprising at all;

> For one, votes seemed to come in all the way through the voting period, and actually increased just before the deadline. That doesn't seem surprising at all; many people vote (and rally others to vote) just under the wire. The same pattern appears in conference submission graphs; there's always a huge number of submissions on the last day.