User blog comment:ThisIsLucid/Practically a banning note, but what the heck!/@comment-25052433-20170126042818/@comment-26425680-20170126212535

Maybe it's the nomination process, and not the voting process that could use a fix. Instead of opening the voting to any and all nominated pastas, the admins could consider the user nominations as suggestions, and narrow the field down to three or four worthy stories to be voted on. This wouldn't eliminate all voting irregularities, but it would ensure a quality story wins, and it might deter some of the past shenanigans. Another suggestion would be to only allow users with a certain number of edits to vote, and people vote by typing in their choice as a blog response, rather than simply clicking a button and leaving. In the end, there's no perfect solution to this problem, but for me, that would be the best way to balance out all the positives and negatives.