Hey Ben,
I have no idea. Unlike the Origins Awards per se, the ones voted by Academy members, there was no nominations process that I'm aware of for these fan awards. So when Jürgen emailed me that the game was a candidate for this award, it really came as a total surprise.
I briefly toyed with the idea of publicly withdrawing the game's candidacy ("not electronic enough") ala the D&D 3.5 withdrawal from from the main "Best Roleplaying Game" category, but I'm really not that much of a punk ass.
If you're curious, Ken Hite's thoughts on the category can be found in his most recent
Out of the Box column.
Paul