Official: Presidential Run-Off

[Darkness' Edge]

I don't see what all the fuss is about.

I posted before I went away, and said I was going to be away for four or five days, with probably no internet access, and that when I was back, I would be here all the time for the rest of the month. As it turned out, there was no access available in the town I was staying in, so I couldn't check in, which was no reason to halt the game. So cavebear did the next best thing, and posted it himself.

[H Tower]

Back on topic now, It's going to be another close one, but that shouldn't be any suprise.

DE: you need to join the civ group soon or you won't be able to vote or even post in this forum.

[atomant]

What happens if we get anotherdraw? Bananas at ten paces?

[-Jrabbit]

There is no banana option.

[Messer Niccolò]

If we get another draw my vote will count as two!
So, to preserve the secret I won't tell you who I have voted for.

[Space05us]

DE: you need to join the civ group soon or you won't be able to vote or even post in this forum.

is that how those things are supposed to work?

If we get another draw my vote will count as two!
So, to preserve the secret I won't tell you who I have voted for.

it is a close one.

[-Jrabbit]

All this hoo-ha reminds me that tomorrow Nov.4 is election day in the US. Let's all remember to get out to the (RL) polls so that we will be justified in our inevitable criticism of the doofuses who will (just as inevitably) win.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

(This has been a public service announcement from the perennially disappointed -Jrabbit. Now back to our regularly scheduled topic.)

[cavebear]

Look, I'm sorry I did this, OK? I should have just ignored *who* posted the runoff poll and let it go. I'm too hierarchal, and sometimes I have no d*mn tact at all.

Here's what happened: When I saw a runoff was needed (neither candidate having gotten 50% of the total vote), I emailed Darkness' Edge in hopes that he *did* have internet access. When he didn't respond (because he couldn't), I decided that the current President was the only person who really *should* post the poll, and went to do so.

I found that a private Citizen had posted a runoff election poll, and got into a real snit about it. It's not the first time a Citizen has initiated electionactivities.

I asked H Tower to close the unauthorized poll and went ahead and posted the "official" poll so as to not delay the game further until Darkness' Edge returned.

Just chalk it up to a clumsy cavebear trying to do things "the right way".

[atawa]

Lets just say we both had the best of intentions but went about it like a bull in a chinawareshop.
(Sorry, this looses a lot in translation)

As far as I'm concerned no hard feelings, hope you feel the same way.

Now lets get on with the game, its an 8-8 tie right now

Let at least someone vote

[cavebear]

Originally posted by atawa
Lets just say we both had the best of intentions but went about it like a bull in a chinawareshop.
(Sorry, this looses a lot in translation)

It's familiar to me. But maybe it should "a cavebear in a china shop".

As far as I'm concerned no hard feelings, hope you feel the same way.

No hard feelings. You're one of my favorite people here.

[cavebear]

I would like to cautiously suggest that, if this runoff ends in a tie, the November Cabinet votes on it? Since there are 5 filled positions, there would be a decision. They could send their votes to forum administrator H Tower (whatever his title) and he could announce the results.

Hopefully, of course, some more Citizens will break the tie and make further procedures unnecessary!

[atawa]

I agree, if the nation can't decide let the people they elected decide.

My second choice would be let them play a duel

[mrboo123]

looks like a tie........... AGAIN!

[shade]

Originally posted by atawa
Lets just say we both had the best of intentions but went about it like a bull in a chinawareshop.
(Sorry, this looses a lot in translation)

this is becoming a real zoo: an ellephant, a bear , a bull and all in that little porcelainshop...must cause damage...

-->note to our next president: maybe we can call our next city "Ellephant In Porcelainshop"(or zootown=Antwerpen )...just to remember these difficult elections.

its a tie

Shade

[cavebear]

There is still some time to go for late votes. But please, if you have a DL, don't use it to vote; that's not fair... Some people don't visit the site as often as the rest of us, but if they do visit, their votes should count fairly.