Like I've said before, it's an odd glitch of the point tracking system. I have access to our traffic stats for JoeUser.com, and just your "Second Annual Joeuser Poll" article is reporting more pageviews than is possible in the past 4 days. Each selection would rank on our traffic stats as a pageview. We have pretty regular and unchanging traffic to the site at the moment and there's nothing to show a sudden spike in views like those numbers would indicate.
It is a glitch in how things are tracked and scored. Those numbers do not represent actual article views.