Miley Cyrus knows how to generate conversation, whether it be good or bad. But here's a weird piece of news: she is leading Time Magazine's Person of the Year online poll. Weird?

The pop star is ahead of former NSA defense contractor Edward Snowden and is leading it with nearly 28% of the votes.

The poll winner, which will be revealed Dec. 6, isn't necessarily the person who becomes Time's Person of the Year, as the editors will pick and then announce that honor on Dec. 11.

Cyrus managed to make quite the social media noise with her music videos, hair cut, performances and more. But do those things make her qualified to be the Person of the Year? Probably not.

Time uses its reader poll to keep its finger on the pulse of public sentiment, but not a definite decider of things.

And also, a pair of programmers are reportedly trying to make a mockery of the Poptip poll, claiming that they've rigged it to cast multiple votes for Cyrus, according to The Daily Dot. See the results below:



Cyrus' voting page describes her as follows: "The artist formerly known as Hannah Montana got tongues wagging — beyond her own —with a scantily clad, twerk-filled performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and meme-able hit videos."

On Twitter, Cyrus has retweeted fans who are encouraging their followers to vote for her.