Dear Wolf2001, We do value everyone's vote. That is why such painstaking measures were taken to try to make it as fair and accurate as possible. Unfortunately, experience has taught us that not everyone plays fair and sometimes people get excited and try to tip the voting scales in their favor, or their friends and family find out about the contest and want to show their support by voting for them. What ever the case may be, we had to set up some guidelines to try to be fair to everyone. That is why the rules stated from the beginning of the contest: (The community voting results will be reviewed. The winners will be determined by the actual number of eligible votes received. Clone voting and votes from accounts created for the exclusive purpose of voting are not eligible and will not be counted.) I did exactly what I said I would do. I reviewed every single vote. After weeding out the invalid votes, there were so many artists that had the same number of valid votes that we had to open the contest to more than 25 images in order to be fair. An independent review was conducted of the remaining images that had 5 votes or less and the Semi-Finalists were selected. This was the fairest possible way that we could determine to correct the voting irregularities that were discovered. My apologies if your vote was among the group of votes that was determined to be ineligible. There were several factors that went into this determination and it was based on the information I had available to me at the time the decision was made. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any further questions or concerns. I will be happy to assist you. Best regards, LillianH Renderosity Marketing Manager

Lillian Hawkins
Marketing Manager
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