Good morning Pete.

Many thanks for your request to be allowed to vote in the WBOTY award 2020.

Your request is currently being assessed by the panel on the Ethical Board Continuing.

You were saying before that you're able to view posts, so you'll be able to see how the assessment goes and whether your vote is counted or not.

To answer your point, we go by democracy, but it may be felt by the panel that we should only grant democracy to those who do the same.  Anyway, you'll be able to see how discussions go.

Thanks for expressing an interest!