crystal globe says "this poll was skewed, let's roll another one"

What you kind of remember could be Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition which later became the base for ALT Linux (which is fully decoupled since 2005 along with the custom installer/setup tools; was likely expected to get drowned by PingWinSoft/ROSA since 2009 by some nice IBM/RH folks -- look up NPP quarrels if really interested -- but that didn't happen).

The first poll round's result might get rejected since they didn't even bother to check the associations with the proposed names and "Mandala Linux" reads quite amusing in Russian slang thus a bunch of Russian folks just couldn't stand flashmobbing it (especially when the meaning correlates to the company's image and behaviour quite nicely ever since they fired Duval).

But that way the poll might become yet another fantastic example of incompetence delivered by the current Mandriva (mis)management... it's better to ask then task than to task then ask.