I personally think this voting is extremely fair and great

It's funny that newbies on here actually thought this was about "selecting a really cool new logo for quark"...lol newbies!
For the veterans who actually understand the rules, this contest is about:
1) create a 2nd (or 3rd) rate logo that will embarrass the quark community
2) create sock-puppet accounts to vote for yourself
3) get your sock-puppets to make comments supporting your own logo
4) troll other crypto threads to get more votes
5) get all of your Facebook friends to vote for you
6) get all of your Twitter followers to vote for you
7) accuse other people of trolling and being unfair for calling you out on #'s 1-6
This is going to be even better when people start getting 100+ votes....and then you'll look at their logo and say - yeah they definitely followed rule #1 by making a 3rd rate logo, and they really dominated on rules #2-6...
I just want to personally thank a select few of the participants for TRULY giving me hope in humanity by being such highly evolved beings
Man, shut the fuck up with your pseudo-intellectual bullshit. You're trying too hard.
This contest is absolutely ridiculous. The voting is rigged and the designs are shit (aside from 2 or 3 which aren't in the top 3 anyway). The prize money is RIDICULOUS and the design that wins won't even end up being the official design as other people have previously stated.
Ultimist's design looks like it should be the logo of a 1970's nuclear research facility. Whoever made this poll should have made another option titled "Keep the old logo?".