The Village Voice‘s Pazz & Jop Poll winner is no mystery, but one Lawrence-based voter is.

The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop poll is out for music year 2008. Predictably, voters named TV on the Radio’s very fine Dear Science the victor.

To declare a winner, the Voice‘s music desk tabulates ballots from hundreds of name-brand critics, no-name editors and writers, card-carrying bloggers, small-press holdovers, MP3 addicts and various hangers-on. Among the collateral results of all the sharing of opinions is a kind of music-geek social networking. The fun of submitting a ballot comes a couple of months after the December cramming, when you find out who else shares your zeal for a particular song or album (or, in the case of Pitch music editor Jason Harper and me, who swapped CDs all year) by clicking to see everyone who voted for it.

That’s how I ran across Oliver Hall and his eccentric (a Doors live album? Really?) ballot:

Then again, there may not be an Oliver Hall.