Alright folks.. interesting turn of events. It looks like Elena most definitely has a bot and it seems to be intelligent. Their bot is constantly running, scanning the results page and pumps votes up as soon as Sophia’s votes surpass theirs.
I ran 4 instances of the script over the course of last night, it seems to have matched the speed and I woke up to Elena/Sophia going head to head again.
I could certainly add some logic to do the exact same thing, but then by poll close we will both have more votes than people on this earth. We will need to strategize.
My proposal is to duke it out with natural voting, keep neck and neck with Elana and then in the final hours on may 31st, I will generate enough instances to make the cpu kick its cooling fans into high gear.