Just to set the record straight, this is the sequence of events as I remember them:
1. SVS posts that she is voting for Snow Dog.
2. I check the poll and see that she has in fact voted for SNow Dog and that her vote order is 2, INH having voted the host option already. I make a note of this in my spreadsheet.
3. Russ posts that we have two days to vote
4. I think to myself "two days? that can't be right!"
5. I check the poll and see that the end date is indeed listed as the 26th. I don't remember what the time was, though.
6. INH posts this:
insertnamehere wrote:PUBLIC NOTICE: In my rush to leave, I forgot to add SVS and Birdwithteeth to the poll, and even more important, I changed the poll end time to tomorrow afternoon, not in two days. I probably will not be able to log on again until tomorrow afternoon.
7. I check the poll a third time and see an end date of the 25th and that SVS's vote is no longer there.
8. MP votes for Mata, his being the second vote after INH's host vote.
9. I correct my spreadsheet, deleting SVS's vote, since she no longer has vote #2, MP does.
10. SVS claims not to have voted. Llama's eyebrow raises.
The fact that I specifically noticed all these oddities at the time makes me feel quite sure in my memory. I believe SVS is simply misremembering, although it did at one point occur to me that she may be trying some elaborate ploy. In all probability, this will not prove relevant, but I wanted to set the record straight on this since I feel like some of my posts have been misunderstood.