Hello voters, nominees, journalists, academy members, and innocent bystanders,

I’m really happy that the The Yahoo! Video Awards have taken off. There are heated contests in many categories, with some folks even making their own videos to drum up support. We like that.

We’re witnessing Democracy in action here (it’s really true, we’re using a polling plugin called Democracy). There are some allegations of vote-tampering robots surfacing in the comments. I honestly don’t suspect any such polling tomfoolery, but let’s keep the commenting and the voting fun and fair. With all the challenges to the polls, it’s almost like Florida in 2000.

Keep keeping it awesome.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team