Voting privileges must now be earnt.
Due to an ever-increasing incidence of fraudulent voting, I've been forced to implement new functionality to secure the Gidol system and make the competitions run more fairly.
I've introduced a system of quality assurance whereby users must now 'qualify' to vote. The specifics of exactly what happens behind the scenes is part of our 'secret sauce' so don't worry too much about it. What is important is that users can no longer create a multitude of fake email accounts and cast their vote, thus improving the credibility of our competitions and site on a whole.
Ben