Peng, That's fine for places where it doesn't cost money to connect (USA mainly). You're going to exclude a lot of people who pay for phone-time all the time they're online - like me, for instance. I have no clones here and have been a member in good standing for about 18 months. Still, from what I understand of your suggestion, I'm going to be ineligible unless I pay my phone company a small fortune for long sessions online. Not a working option for many of us. Your motive is excellent but unfortunately the outcome would be arbitrary disqualification of a whole bunch of people who should be able to vote. I'd rather go with Brendan's idea of having the voting out in the open in one thread. It works well in the Bryce forum (although there are no prizes) and I'm interested to see the outcome of JeffH's experiment.