NeonZ
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Honestly I wouldn't be so sure of that. Where is the sort of person that doesn't watch Nintendo Directs supposed to learn about ballot from? Communities. I really doubt that there are that many people that visited the official site but do not participate in any internet community exposed to these discussions.
There are many people who watch Directs and post in those threads but don't follow Smash Community threads or the long tail of these threads. Those people likely would have no contact with most fan polls. I generally follow the Smash threads here, aside from the matchmaking stuff, and only remember getting links to vote for one fan poll (although I saw commentaries about many others that had already finished).