There is no reason for entrants who got votes remove to think they had something to do with it. Did you ever think that those might be totally real votes from real N900 users? Remember that ALL new account votes were removed from the total counts. This means that a new talk.maemo.org user could have and probably did come and vote in the contest and happened to pick YOUR application from the rest.

This was the known down side of this decision that real votes from people that you don't know or have never said anything about this competition could have been removed. There is no reason to think that few dropped votes would mean you had anything to do with it at all. I am sure that many many legitimate votes from new forum members with maemo devices were also included in the votes removed, as this forum most likely gets tens and tens of new users every month. That was the down side of this vote elimination to get real results into one category, and it was probably totally random.