@peterlund -
Your program was great, and I liked it so much that I pinned the current_vote.txt page in my browser for the time I was able to be playing. I greatly appreciate the inclusion of current votecounts, increased update frequency near EOD, and the post/word/char counts. That helped sort out, in a purely quantitative way, who was lurking or not. It also got me up to speed when I still had voting to catch up on. The vote tracker was helpful, but a bit hard to read.
If you figure out how to output the results file in html, you could have the text of every vote in the votecount link to the page on which the vote was given. Or maybe just make the text of their post a mouseover hovertext for that part of the vote tracker.
A searchable database sounds ambitious. Not bad, but ambitious. (At that point, you could offer to program mafia.webdiplomacy.net, write a new frontend to update votecounts live, and start pulling traffic from EM and mafiascum). If you could figure out how to dump the thread database into a word/excel doc, that might do the trick. Ogion did something like this earlier, but I don't know how automated it was. Either way, he might have ideas.
No matter what, I'm looking forward to making use of this tool in the future, as both town and as scum. Thanks for all the work you put into it already. :)