I've been talking to spurge and I can confirm that none of the people who voted in the last round received a pm from him. He may have pm'd some people about it, but none of them actually voted. Therefore he got through fair and square.
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right