The lack of anonymity does seem to be a problem with the "toplists" idea. For now, since it seems as if there is no consensus on how to reduce this problem, I guess cheating is an inherent possibility in any system, and we'll have to leave the judging criteria unchanged since there hasn't been an obviously better alternative suggested.
We will, however, go through all the votes and spend a great deal of time analyzing them for patterns to detect duplicate votes. Per the rules, duplicate votes will be disqualified, and if the duplicate votes are traced to the competitors, the competitors' entries themselves will be disqualified.
Good luck!
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