From the 4/12/2014 announcement, there's going to be a green button appearing at the top of the page when voting begins.
CoinPayments Charity Coin Vote
Building on our experiences in our previous public votes and after weighing our options, we have decided to hold this public coin vote off of our usual forum. This should open it up to even more people since they won't have to register for an account there.
This time we've also turned the vote into a charity drive for The Water Project. Each vote will require a donation of 0.001 BTC (or LTC/DOGE equivalent) with a side effect of helping deter paid vote manipulation.
Rules
Only 1 vote is allowed per person. Additional votes will replace your earlier votes. Votes determined to be fraudulent or paid-for will not be refunded (the funds will of course still be donated to the charity). Doing any of the following will disqualify your vote: (Sorry we have to take such a hard line on this, we just have rampant cheating during each vote.)
Starting a vote then having someone else do the donation.
Placing a vote then getting a reimbursement or reward of any value (for example: crypto or fiat currency, access to a site that normally requires payment, coupons or discounts, etc.)
Using Tor or similar = automatic disqualify (during our last vote we only had 3 valid votes from Tor users)
IPs listed in HTTP:BL or other spambot/botnet blacklist = automatic disqualify
This is not a complete list, anything that violates the spirit of the rules will be disqualified.
Remember: This vote is not about trade volume (a lot of that volume is people trading the coin for BTC/LTC or to hold for long term investment) or which coin backers have the biggest advertising budgets; it is about how many people genuinely want to purchase items using a particular coin.
Transparency
We will not collect any fees on the donations, 100% of the proceeds will go to The Water Project. Once the vote is over we will follow this procedure so anyone can verify we made the donation:
Any LTC and DOGE collected will be converted to BTC via Cryptsy at the then-current exchange rate and added to the BTC collected directly.
We will post the BTC, LTC, and DOGE totals at
http://pastebin.com/ and on this page. This will provide a permanent timestamped reference of what we will send to TWP.
The next day (since Pastebin only shows the date of the post) we will send the BTC to The Water Project (under BitGive's campaign) at
https://thewaterproject.org/community/profile/bitgive-foundation and post the transaction IDs on this page.
We will ask The Water Project to tweet or provide other verification of the donation.
Its kind of funny that you can disqualify your single vote by trying to represent more votes.
