I love how people are complaining that Arceus supposedly won unfairly, yet Ditto would have had no shot at all without cheating.
Not really. Ditto was already in second at the first week, when the discussion was if we should support Ditto, Lugia, Ho-oh or Shroomish/Breloom. All the cheating and spamming frenzy started after Arceus showed up in 1st and Ditto in 2nd. So, Ditto had a real chance even without the supposed cheating.
Ditto was kind of unique for the poll, without few pokémons taking votes away from it (considering a Ditto x Arceus duel). Arceus, on the other hand, is surely a very rare pokémon, but so are Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Deoxys, Darkrai, Shaymin and Manaphy and they certainly "stole" fair votes from Arceus. And I would add Mewtwo and Rayquaza to the list of "Arceus stolen votes", as they are very popular among kids (Charizard is too, but he is not legendary). If the supposed cheating worked, it only proves that Arceus would win anyway.
The only thing left to do now is welcome Arceus. He is not a special one, but it's still an Arceus.