If another of these competitions from the Summer of 2010 is any indiction of whom the casting director picks the popular votes play a very small part of the selection.
Some of the winners listed only got between 2 anf 6 votes and none seemed to do all that well with the popular vote.
Click on the girl's name where the 5 winners for the Tara Smith shoot are in this link.
http://www.exploremodeling.com/Casti...h/Default.aspx