<danQ dons wet blanket>
this is laser-related like the Miss America contest is related to singing...
I find this kind of "poll" juvenile, divisive... and wildly inaccurate - doesn't the fact that there have been several complaints of "but xxxx should have been nominated" tell you anything? aside from that the complainants are wrong, that is - they aren't wrong, they're telling you there was a major flaw in your methodology.
But in my opinion, the root problem was having a popularity contest at all - it's just not useful and all too often results in rivalry and resentment.