For future major polls (such as mod elections) I suggest that some sort of forum app be installed/written so that only those who have had a registered account on innectis forums for two or more months (amount of time subject to change at admin decision) may vote. There have been certain allegations of bringing in new people simply to bribe them to vote, which may or may not be true. This modification to the voting system would stop cheating in major polls, and members who have been around for less than two months most likely do not really know most of the candidates and thus are almost certainly not informed enough to vote in the first place. Please consider this or something like it.
Another idea: I'd hate to silence the active and kind user population, but limiting votes to VIP+ would definitively stop the creation of new accounts just to vote, as no one would pay $5.00 per vote just to become an innectis moderator.