[GJim]

No.

It certainly wasn't a voting system. Rather, it was a decent enough system used to help gauge demand in a given area. (Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of demand for ADSL in university towns, and much less in retirement-town-by-the-sea).

[bravesoul2]

Voting may be the wrong word but I think if you lobby your local area to submit their interest you'd have a good chance of getting it activated. There was a threshold and a tracker on the website.