Talk about blog FAIL…they can’t figure out how to take a million hits over a given time period?

Unfortunately the resources required to handle the load of voting (nearly 1,000,000 votes in 2008) could not be adequately provisioned. Even if the servers and bandwidth required appeared today it would be at least a few weeks before everything could be ready for voting.

Use a simple form (get rid of the flash animation and all that crap. A simple server pool can handle a ton of 25kb form posts).