Reddit administrators even promised to help with the poll
The admins will be helping us and will provide us with a breakdown of votes by account age and sub activity.
and respect the results of the poll
If the results of the poll show the community wants us to participate and protest the changes, admins have promised us to respect that will and work on our demands.
Despite the results given by Reddit administrators themselves being clearly in favor of blackout, Reddit broke their promise forcing the subreddit to reopen.