User blog comment:511878/Vote for the new Bureaucrat/@comment-511878-20140328003112/@comment-20644-20140330153942

Hey guys, I'm Brandon from Wikia. I wanted to chime in here about the request not to use a poll. Polls don't say which users voted for what, and unregistered contributors can vote in them. Because of that, it's very easy to manipulate an election using a poll. So we ask that communities vote in discussion form, like you all did here, so we can say who voted and for whom they voted.

Hope that clears things up!