Just waking up this morning and it seems the rules we created for voting are turning against us,

Personally thats ok with me if a majority agree on the outcome. And thats fine--even Congress can overturn decisions, rules and laws with a decent majority, so we needn't feel bad about making what might become some necessary alterations. Only perfection would get it right the first time, and there is no person or process that will ever attain that, so in order to make anything its best there needs to be a window of flexibility.
Assuming the #2 set will win the voting:
1. My proposal is much like the last couple I have heard. If Ruksana is on the cover, shift Alexandra in the place of Armando, who are both Ecuadorian as we know. There is still a good ratio of women to men inside and that way both of these wonderful pics of Ruksana and Alexandra are represented.
2. If Alexandra heads to the cover, in order to keep Ruksana and the rest of the pics, one has to be removed. It could be Armando in order to prevent two Ecuadorian pics, or we can actually remove any one of the pics we decide upon, rules aside.
My feeling is that it would be less time consuming and an easier process for all of us with option 1, even though Im for Alexandra, but Im willing to compromise my vote to make option #1 work. And with option 1 we dont need anymore voting or consensus about which pictures to keep and remove.