Where on earth did you come up with the 8.1 million from Ralph????
As of November 7th, 2009, there are
* 568,244 Published Hubs
* 110,272 Published Users
These numbers are taken from the official Hubpages "about us" page.
At best IF every hubber were to vote once a day hubpages could get about 3.4 million votes in the 31 days set aside for nominations.