The voting process contains its own set of checks-and-balances. A script must receive a majority number of the votes in order to be declared a winner for a particular episode. One vote is assigned to the script with the popular vote -- decided in a poll on the forum -- and another for each moderator who chooses their favorite script. The presiding moderators for the contest are Mr. Leaf, Marik7772003, mac_ad, and CurbFan (who resigned as a judge mid-way into the contest). The moderator votes carry more weight than those of people voting in the polls to assure that there is more "responsibility" in choosing a rightful winner, and to discourage cheating. Starting with episode 7 of the contest and author of the winning script was offered the position of temporary judge for the next episode wi