Well, I discovered a few hours ago that some versions of Internet Explorer did not work correctly with the security system I had running on the song voting contest, and so a LOT of people have been able to vote many times a day in the contest while others were shut out for 24 hours after voting.

I’ve changed some settings behind the scenes, and now EVERYONE is, finally, locked out for 24 hours after voting. (If people figure a way around THAT, then I have a few other options, but, really, I don’t want this contest to be about my Internet security skills. If it becomes that, I probably won’t continue it next month. It ain’t worth the trouble. PLEASE just vote once a day, even if you know how to get around the system, dang it!)

To keep this dang little contest entertaining for the rest of November, I’ll be making an adjustment to account for all the questionable votes that have come in up to now. Here’s the new rules.

Voting will proceed as usual from now until Saturday at noon. All votes, illegal or not, will continue to count, for now, and we’ll eliminate the bottom 10 songs from the contest during the next live show at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Then, immediately after the next live show, I’ll reset all of the remaining songs to 0 votes, and they will have to battle it out Even Steven for the final two weeks of the November contest.

Ya’ll like that idea? That’s the way it will have to be unless someone posts a better suggestion as a comment below. And, anyone who intends to get overly worked up about all this needs to re-read the Contest Rules, dang it.