Nameless Acolyte's message from Discord's news section of FKG:

Hello everyone, The Popularity Contest has now received a different purpose as, due to certain issues, we can no longer introduce the initially announced re-skinned versions. The 3 winning Flower Knights will be instead included in a Special Gacha Machine that will release shortly after the event. All users will be compensated according to their level of participation in the Voting Poll. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, The Flower Knight Girl Team

And blobz from unofficial status updates:

About compensation for the voting event, gacha at the end of event should not be considered as one; there will be compensation given at the end of event: there will be 3 tiers of rewards based on level of participation in voting.
Everyone who voted (even once) will receive compensation.
Content of tiers are not (yet) known (to be edited when/if that changes).

It seems they'll give us something at least... I hope it won't be crap but...

EDIT

New info and discussion on compensation in this thread: CLICK

New results up, theres still hope if we vote for sakura :c nothing to do about this helpless orchid lovers thou

Rally behind Sakura!
Ara ara~

This whole event has been a rollercoaster for me... my dreams have been crushed so many times, first Amaryllis then Mint, then Cepha... but we can do it this time! The Sakura dream lives!

Eh, it's one thing if you already have one or more of the leading 6*s, but since the only one I have is Orchid I'd have to go for Alpinia to try to knock Orchid down...then you Sakura acolytes can try to finish Orchid off.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Eh, it's one thing if you already have one or more of the leading 6*s, but since the only one I have is Orchid I'd have to go for Alpinia to try to knock Orchid down...then you Sakura acolytes can try to finish Orchid off.

Yeah the thing really is gtfo orchid, so give all your love to alpinia and sakura

Originally Posted by Ikki

New results up, theres still hope if we vote for sakura :c nothing to do about this helpless orchid lovers thou

I agree with you that kicking Orchid seems unrealistic. And if I have to choose between Alpinia and Sakura then it's definitely Alpinia. So she's going to get all my votes.

How common is that voting ticket hangout mission? I keep getting the 80 stamina secret gardens, but I've yet to see the ticket mission.

I don't know if that's intended or not, but I got a standard Bonus Stage (80 Sta) after the ?-8 Event map... (Note I first answered "no" when the game asks if you want to go now, to check first if there were some Boss to attack.)

Even with the whole DON'T VOTE ORCHID, YA FOOLS, she's still firmly second.

The player base, man

I mean, there just isn't any way to reach even a majority of the playerbase, so that's to be expected. People who use forums/discord are in the minority after all.