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@NoMorePie @lethbri1 @zcook1945 @momcilo:

Before announcing the contest we did a final check for votes that appeared to be fraudulent (many votes from the same place) and removed them from the tally. We removed fraudulent votes from 4 of the 5 categories, and applied the same criteria to everyone. In the Home Cooking category, this put Gina's Skinny Recipes in the lead, with Stainless Steel Thumb a strong second place.

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Please use the form above to vote. It's labeled "Which is your favorite Kid's Design blog?"
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Thanks for the tip, Mike. I had a similar problem with my phone changing "me" into "Mr". The problem was that I had someone in my address book as "Mr X" instead of "Mr. X" (autocorrect uses names from your address book). Apparently that little period makes all the difference, because adding it to the contact solved the problem.

UPDATE on problems voting: We've received a few complaints about readers getting the following message when they try to vote: "An error prevented us from casting your vote. Please try again later." Here's what happened. Voting is only open for each contest entry for the first 4 days after it shows up on the site. After those 4 days, the voting form is supposed to close and just display the results. Unfortunately, a bug in our new contest code made it seem that voting was still open, even after it had closed. So, after voting ended, it still looked as though voting was open, but when someone actually tried to vote, they would get the error above. We are currently working to fix this problem, and will have it fixed before the next round of voting begins. The good news is that no votes were lost.

I love the simplicity of this method. And "Time Out" is a great program, but I've never known what to do with the micro breaks until now. Thanks!