dKos Poll irregularity

This morning I woke up to find something odd in 2 different tabs on my firefox browser. The Madman's GBCW diary was the latest in a nasty series of meta-diaries that broke out from a diary by Armando, ironically on the subject of 'voter fraud' conspiracys being discussed on dKos.

This is ironic because the Madman's GBCW diary had a poll on the reinstatement of a user who banned from dKos and the results appear to have been altered somehow during the night.

Screenshots below the fold

in one tab on my firefox browser I saw this:
Before


After

There is no timestamp on the screenshots but you can tell by the number of comments listed in each screenshot which page  came first.

My questions are simple. Was this poll altered or was this due to a 'software glitch'? I find the 'software glitch' theory hard to swallow since all the votes seemed to have disappeared from one side. If the poll results were altered then does that mean that dKos staff reserve to alter the results of any poll that may be being freeped.

I am sure others will be interested in the answer to these questions as well.
[Update] I neglected to mention that a FP-er had offered to reinstate the user if he won the poll. As I write this the banned user is currently short by four votes. Seven were lost at some point. That is why this needs to be fixed. Maybe those seven votes came back. Who knows? That's the problem. Nobody seems to know.