Funny how it changes things, when the ballot not open to being decided by a passing Facebook mob. There were a total of 57 responses submitted, although I did have to engage in some light filtering: those who voted included Chris Herrmann’s dog, Definitely not Aricat’s friend and Russian hacker. Funny how these all voted for Chris Herrmann. :) Cleaning those out, and limiting the ballots to registered SnakePitters, brought us the following result - the number in parentheses is the percentage the player received of the raw, unfiltered vote.
So, Chris Owings would have won with or without the restriction, though his margin would have been considerably smaller without.