IIRC it seems many of these finalists don't have many miles and that they use some other criteria in selecting the finalists

my starting points for votes would be:

100K or more
non-officer (ie.. not a VP, pres, CEO, BOD, etc)... preference given to the workerbee who schleps his arse around without the VIP or Sr Exec expense account

as I go through these.. how can this even be mentioned

2006 AAdvantage miles: 32,172

ok, I picked Kaye