In all the years that we have run the contest at iKolam, you were the first one to complain about voting improprieties. Our system depends on the honesty of the members.
BTW, we hate to do this. But here is a dump of the votes cast by members with questionable status, and they all happen to be on entry 181 and 182 - both are your entries!
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Here are some stats about the Mehndi contest:
Total number of entries: 27
Withdrawn/disqualified : 4
Total number of voters: 78
The top three positions that we declared earlier is same as what we found here using the weighted score method.
Here is the weighted score of the rangoli results. It doesn't change the outcome of the winning entry, although there are some changes in the placements, according to the votes received. The top entries in both the lists are more or less the same. And we must add that the weighted score can get skewed too. It all depends on how you slice and dice it. 
| Entry | Votes | Score |
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82 | 7620 |
Here are the names of the participants. We've marked a few of the submissions as "maybe" because we're not sure if these are for the contests. We're still waiting for the confirmation from some of our potential participants. Please contact us if you are a participant, and you don't see your name here, and upload (or re-upload) your image.
Contest rangolis are displayed here:
http://www.ikolam.com/node/17068
This is the time of the year when the iKolam server comes under severe stress. Some members have emailed me personally and some have posted online about connection issues. Some received "Access denied" messages for certain pages. To alleviate the situation, we have disabled certain provisions of the server (like Account/Track, which burdens the server quite a bit). Hopefully this should enable us to get through this season.
We're happy to announce our traditional Diwali rangoli contest for this year. Our sister site IMehndi.com is conducting its first Henna/mehndi contest. For further details, please visit the following links:
Diwali rangoli contest:
http://www.ikolam.com/node/16643
Henna/Mehndi contest:
http://www.ikolam.com/node/16644
Marapachi contest results
Golu contest results.
Here are the Golu contest and the Marapachi doll contest 2010 results:
Ms.Jyothy Padmanabhan wins the golu contest.
http://www.ikolam.com/node/16228
Marapachi doll-decor contest results:
Mr.Jayasimha Rangarajan wins the Marapachi doll decor contest.
http://www.ikolam.com/node/16158
Congrats!
We'll be posting the complete results in a day or two.
