Good point Ed, many people won't have visited the site over the holidays. (Curiously though, we averaged 10,000 hits per day on 25/26 December.)
Regarding placing the poll in a more prominent place, I'm not sure how we'd go about doing this. (Perhaps creating it's own thread?)
Our old voting system used to place a survey on the home page - it looked something like this...
Saving EST Results
>> Removed link to old (non-functional) survey.