Kendra, in #88:

On the other hand, if people are voting out of some sort of
spite or to get back at Renderosity for past differences
then you should be able to see how posting messages in the
forums and rallying everyone to vote for this reason is
unfair to the other artists in the running and why they'd
want to put a stop to it.

Renderosity may want to put a stop to it, but yanking the
vote away from people is hardly the way to do it. All they
are achieving is to generate more 'past differences' for
the future, if in fact they yanked the vote for the reasons
that people here suspect.

No matter what the skill level or motive, art cannot be
seperated from opinion. They are one and the same. To
disallow a public response to art (or the artist) is to
deny the fact of what art is.

I call on Renderosity to re-open the public vote for AoY.
To do anything else at this point is to lend credence to
the suspicions that have been raised, regardless of
what the actual reason for the closing of the vote was.