Bolivia – vote for your favourite picture for the calendar

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[Christopher]

Welcome to the first round of voting which is open until Monday 17th (5 days total).

There are 16 concurrent polls (one for each country) – so remember to vote in each one.

Below are links to each  entrepreneurs' profile, a thumbnail (which in turn is linked to the full-sized image – be warned some of which are very large)

The winner of each country will then go through to the next round of voting*. (Results will be available only after the poll has ended).

Kiva profile: Bernabe Patricio	Kiva profile: Fausto Poma	Kiva profile: Magda Huanca
Kiva profile: Santusa Mendoza	Kiva profile: Valentina Calle

*I am currently reserving the right that if there is a tie I will have the casting vote (I will not have voted in the poll, however tempting it might be).

Where possible the casting vote will be used to ensure a balance of male and female entrepreneurs throughout the calendar (as to the Kiva ratio), and technically on it merits (colour, composition, focus, size and quality etc), and aesthetically to ensure a balance of businesses across the calendar (farming, shops, repairs, food, markets etc).

If we don't get this balance I propose to open up a new discussion thread to hammer it out before the next round of voting.

[Christopher]

This poll is now locked.  Thank you to everyone who voted - your efforts have gone through to the second round.

Most of the polls in the first round had run away winners, though it seems a couple of them at least were much harder for voters to decide and were closer.

Where the polls were close the runners up (within about 10% of the winner) have also gone through - as have all the countries in the Rest of the World poll.

This has given us a good mix for the second round...