I agree, blairvanhorn, why are people starting to vote? Personally I would not be able to do this due to financial restriction, but don't think people should be doing this. Reading over this thread shows that there are many very qualified candidates here, probably just because they are unknown to people they are not getting support. You wouldn't want people to think that this has already been decided and perhaps not even enter and then lose out on someone really great?

Before any decision is made, the basis on which the decision is to be made must be decided such as a list of attributes. Then you have a basis of informed evaluation. This basis has not even been set yet, so my vote is, stop the voting and stumping for your favorite candidates, this is not an election.