... my security program now marks it as a phishing site, preventing any voting at all :
I was using Avast few years, it was the best free one I could find.After installing Win7 I changed to Microsoft Security Essentials, and it is good enough for what I do.Both are at the top of various comparison lists. (Version for XP also exists if needed.)When I installed EPW client it just asked "Cannot recognize patcher.exe file, do you allow the program to send it to Microsoft for analisys?". I allowed and now all is ok.It doesn't mark "our" voting sites as phishing.~~~~~Of course, no two or more security programs are recommended to work simultaneously.They can interlock each other in the moments of checking the same file, and freeze comp.People usually know that, but not all of them.
The problem can be solved easy, think about if we have now 3714 votes and the 1st place got 4352 how many votes we will have if the voting time is reduces at 3h. If you lower the time you can lower the reward(or not) But we would have almost double votes. So almost 7500 while 1st place and second place only 4500...Now this is just an ideea:)