We'll use an arbitrary number, 50. So let's say the total number of votes for the scorpion on the english forums was the said number. We'll be arbitrary again and say the other got 30 and the hippogryph got 20. Now we'll continue this line and say in the JP forum it was 25 hippo, 20 other and 15 scorp and the other forums came up with 15 hippo, 10 scorp, 5 other.
Now this DOSE NOT add up to 75 scorp, 55 other and 50 hippo. It adds up to; English scorp 1st, other 2nd and hippo 3rd, JP hippo 1st, other 2nd and scorp 3rd, and Other hippo 1st, other 2nd and scorp 3rd. Which gives you Hippo first and scorp last. This is how they kept it fair. So simple with the forums that have smaller post counts get an equal say in the matter. As apposed to the english forums that have threads with counts higher then the other forum's total post count all together, because the people here can't shut up about about things like why relic should always be better then everything in the game just because if it's not, it would dimish their person achievement. This is the same reasoning why I say bickering and draging out the scorp is petty and a waste of time even though it lost fair and square.
Nothing against you, just see it as yet another "why didn't you count our votes thread." They're becoming as incidious as the "let us change our names" threads. It seems you missed the guy who comes back and posts replys to himself demanding a dev go out of their way to answer him so he can fee justified in some way against sometihng that's already lost. Infact these are the same people who started the "are we just wasting our time" thread in the general disscussion because they couldn't figure out how the vote worked even though they were plainly told.