RTTA Lessons Learned

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Kerry,

Concerns about the legitimacy of votes were raised on the car that ended up with the most votes. Other concerns were raised that somehow people's original votes were moved to other cars without their knowledge. If people were administrators on Facebook pages, they could also cast additional votes if they were using Facebook as that page and I saw at least one guy I know, who did that in the voting. In the end, when you put something out there that people want really badly, folks will push the envelope to try to get things to work out in their favor. That is a theme that weaves it's way through every facet of the OUSCI selection process and the event itself, making it very challenging to invite vehicles and run the event.

Our goal was to give the fans a voice in helping select the field, we just need to find a better way to go about doing it and we're actively working on that. Ideally, we'd like to have another fan vote and if we can find a better way to do it, we may wait until after all the qualifiers have been run to give it another shot.

Jim McIlvaine
eCare Manager, optima batteries, Inc.
www.facebook.com/optimabatteries

What was weird to me was after several days of pretty consistent movements (mostly linearly) in votes, one car SLING SHOTTED past the others by hundreds of votes...... just didn't seem right to me.

Good call on shutting that voting method down!