Heh, I'd say bigger stuff would fit nicely in the writing room - poor edonil already has his hands full!
Regarding the whole requirement to vote thing, when I used to enter I made a point of reading and commenting on people's stories as a matter of courtesy to my fellow writers, so it was easy to vote afterward. Back then, a lot of us tried to comment on every story.
Now life can get thoroughly in the way, but really if there's time to write there's probably time to read at least one or two stories and post a little comment. Then a quick message saying "couldn't vote, but have tried to comment on the ones I could read" or even "no time to vote this month, sorry" stops edonil waiting about for votes that won't show. Whether he considers it fair for that person to be allowed to win or not is up to him, but in the end, if winning is really important to someone the conditions that are required to do so must be met. I'd have no issue saying "Can't vote, sorry. Guess I can't win this one!", because it's the writing, reading and talking about it with other writers that motivates me.
That's also why I don't like the prize, it sometimes makes people keen to win rather than keen to be involved with the writing community. I don't say that necessarily applies to anyone here though, of course, I can't make that kind of judgement