Mage why are you so angry? Carlie was de-staffed and asked me to take over the awards (and I'm doing so reluctantly because I honestly don't want to be running them when I've got so much else on my plate, but nobody else wanted to do it), she's been gone and I haven't had a lick of sentiment so far that there's a problem.
Please people, if there's a problem, say so. If I'm rushing things a bit, it's easy enough to keep the polls open for longer when they're posted - a week is excessive though, we won't get through them until like mid-January at that rate and the general consensus has been that we want to get them done before the new year.
EDIT: Also I've already opened a new version of the poll you mentioned.