Thank you all so much for your continued (and new!) support
Last night I emailed back the website designers and told them the answers, which were clearly stock answers, were not good enough, and asked, in detail, more specific questions. I haven't heard anything so far! I did inform them that as of tomorrow at 2.10pm our school breaks for Easter and would appreciate a reply by then so I can inform parents of the situation. Maybe I'll get a reply in time?!
Another of our staff members today told me she had a friend at British Airways who she had recruited, and their staff have all tried to vote for us as of today (they've been a little 'strike' busy before now) - they were *all* greeted by the message 'Thank you, but you have already voted within the last 24 hours!'
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They are, shall we say, 'not happy'. To the point where they have made an official complaint to the organisers, 'Elmsleigh'. I directed them there. Decided I should give the website designers at least until 2.10 pm tomorrow to reply to my questions regarding our voters inability to vote.
If this doesn't happen, I am more than willing to post the website organisers name, contact number and email addresses to anyone that wants it. Maybe a direct complaint to them will yield some results that we all seem unable to get by any other means.
Someone on a website I frequent asked me today 'Is there a prize for 2nd place?' I have answered 'Yes. And we intend to win it. That prize is the knowledge that we should have won, but still got 2nd, regardless of this farce, and by sheer hard work and a lot of wonderful supporters'
Thank you all so much! I will keep you up to date with any news or developments.