The timeframe for the voting was a whooping 10 days and not 24 hours, and I'm 100% sure that all those voters that was mentioned on that thread all saw the notifications, but rather chose to ignore it rather than cast their vote, simply because they saw it to be of less importance. So this idea of extending the date won't solve anything, because even if you extend the voting day to 100 days, there are still a set of people that won't still vote. So I think that stage has already been settled since yesterday, and what we are waiting for is for O.P to announce the winners.


Judging by the voting pattern which O.P gave, allowing each eligible voters to vote for 5 food contest, I also did my draft arithmetic calculation, adding 5 points to whichever food contest number that was chosen by the voters as their first choice, 4 points to the number that was chosen as second choice, 3 points for third choice, 2 points for forth choice and 1 point for the fifth choice. And after that, I also saw that two dishes have the same number of votes. And in that scenario, I guess the best decision to do is to select the dish that has the highest number of voters that choose it as their first choice. So it is a very easy calculation, since the whole voting process is visible and transparent that everybody can see.

Had the been the timeframe for the eligible voters to cast their votes was within 3 days, I would have agreed with you that the timeframe set by the OP for the voting to last is the reason why some eligible voters couldn't make it to cast their votes, but since the voting timeframe lasted for 10 days, I think the eligible voters that didn't cast their votes don't want to take part in the voting process.

The votes now is enough to call the result. So there is no need to bother anybody to come and vote. However, reminding them via PM will joy be wrong. But we should also know that there is a rule against unsolicited PM. My take is that the votes should be collated and the winners announced. Maybe in the edition, the voting selection rules can be adjusted.

 I bin dey think say nah after ten days the results go dey announced but maybe nah Mia Chloe know why him dey delay. Anyways,  like Fiatless talk, e no go make sense to dey solicit for votes make e no look like say nah partial person wan use win. Either way I dey eager to see who go emerge the winner.

The the aspect that I see that is wrong here is the organizer not being able to also notify the eligible voters through PMs serving as the reminder, honestly let's be frank with this, a lot of them have busy schedules and they might have thoughts that they still enough time before the due date for them to vote and thereby means out the deadline, it happens a lot of times, before we know it time has already passed after we might have thought of doing it later so for this voting purpose I don't think there is even a need for extending the duration or for choosing a long for the voters to cast their votes

This is something that within 3 days should be done and we get the results within 5 days, lastly I will advise that aside being the fact that all the eligible voters were being tabbed by who you should also send a reminder to them via pm, this cannot be regarded as sperm or an unsolicited PMs because the sender is A reputable member while those you are sending two as well are quite aware of such and we rather Honor it than saying it as a bug on them, multiple numbers of users can receive a message at once, te same pattern campaign managers uses in passing information across their participants through PM.