I wouldn't say have the community poll on who gets it. I say there should be a random player spinner that selects the player than wins.

How about random nominations and then a public poll to vote for the nominees?

Random nominations means that alts could end up getting it, when their main already has VIP. I'd say do a community poll to vote on nominees, and have staff weed out alts and then have another poll to determine the lucky winner. If the whole point is to get defaults VIP, then in my opinion alts should be excluded.