Time out!

Ok I (Bill) take responsibility for the voting frenzy. I have tried to keep things fair and workable but have really just muffed it up. I didn't provide enough guidelines and rules or an adequate explanation and so I am publicly apologizing to the models and their family and friends.

When we first started you were asked to vote by email. That had it's problems because people were putting multiple names on an email or saying that they were voting for grandma because she didn't have email. Plus it took me forever to count and keep track of because I had to open each email up to see who it was from and who they were voting for. Frankly I was too busy photographing the models, processing their images and making their slide shows to keep track that way so I changed the voting to the comments section of the blog. People then emailed me concerned because they couldn't vote because they were not Gmail registered. So I changed the settings to allow anyone to vote. Once again we had people placing multiple votes on a comment so I changed things again to one vote per comment. Now I see comments coming in in spurts within just a couple of minutes and I wonder just how so many people can be voting all at the same time. So... I goofed and I need to do something to make it right. Not everyone will be happy with me but this is it.

Week 4 is a TIE between Monique and Casey. You both are apparently putting in a great deal of effort getting all of your families and friends to vote for you. Today the numbers are going up like mad. You each will get the award for the week and you both will be awarded 200 votes for the week.

Now for week five. I don't want to discourage anyone and I do appreciate every one's interest but we have to change things for week five. I may just be making things worse and you may be mad at me but I really just want things to be perceived as fair. So starting now all votes must be placed on my email at billvancuran@gmail.com. Only one vote per email and the vote must be made by the person voting. They must leave their full name on the email. I am sorry if grandma does have email but if she doesn't she obviously can't vote.
I hope this doesn't dampen your spirits regarding the voting. There is still a $25 gift card to give out for week 5 (Design) plus the personalized T-shirt and the bragging rights. All seven models still have a chance to be a weekly people's choice winner. Plus... the overall people's choice winner is still up for grabs. That is the model with the most total votes. That's the $100 prize. BTW I will post current totals soon and I will give credit for votes received up to this moment.
Thanks you for your patience with me. We had tried to do somethings different this year with the modeling experience to make it better and more interesting but I have certainly have learned some lessons regarding things that don't work so well.

The professional choice voting will be taking place toward the end of this week and the winner of that competition will be announced early next week. We do want to say that all the models have been great to work with. Their family and friends have a right to be proud of them. God Bless Melanie and Bill VanCuran