it's not very democratic to vote before all the candidates are known is it. surely there will be closing time (for entries) and then, and only then can voting start. equally there will have to be a closing time for voting after which someone (presumably the setter will declare the winner). if people make more than one entry voting will start to get messy- after all the vote is for a particular clue,not specifically the setter. or is it?
personally I think this will prove that democracy is sometimes a crock of s**t and that a benign dictator is often called for.
ps. is it OK to make lots of entries using alias names and then manage a block vote for myself. if it isn't how will you know-after all vote rigging is a well established tradition of democracy.