User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Regarding PotM (again)/@comment-4715955-20151120055057/@comment-25148755-20151120063109

The issue there is you could still have sock accounts or people gaming votes from other sites. The downside of just having admins get the vote is of course that it could be considered elitist, so maybe there's somehow a way that normal users would get the privilege of voting...through site participation or something...three months on the site and 500 edits, for example. (Although that would take a lot of effort to make sure everyone who votes is 'qualified') You could still technically have someone with a sock account get both accounts voting privileges, but it would take decidedly more time and energy.