Maybe after the vote?! Otherwise there will be the issue of "biased fans" coming to vote on their favorites and not to vote on artists in general... I personally don't see this poll as a publicity stunt for artists, but a poll for/from the psynews community (new- and old' -commers)... but it could be nice if it could attract new users to this community from the "outside"
Edited: just to clarify, I would also like to promote the voting outside psynews to get more people to join us here), just not get promoters to spread it as well (I guess I would not like to stop them doing it, but not encourage them either). I would suggest to post the voting on more general sites, e.g. on fb, discogs or other social media... did we already do that this year?
just my thoughts...