Election: President

[Ninot]

Pleased to Announce

Trip and I are very pleased to announce this election is now ended.

Your Winners, by agreement

Ninot and Trip

We have come to the conclusion that this vote has gotten out of hand. The only reasonable conclusion is that you, the citizens, want both of us. A 1 vote difference for victory would be ridiculous in any case.

So for the best of the nation, Trip and I have decided to split the duties of President, and we will both serve you with the abilities we offer.

Thank you.

[Spiffor]

Ninot : you are definitely a man of dialogue

[notyoueither]

That is very good news Ninot. The alternatives are... unpleasant to think about.

I don't know about the rest of you, but something is very fishy around these parts. There are a few people on these boards who would have very little trouble creating DLs by the bucket load. Has anyone noticed that there are 32 new registrations on Poly so far today? That's fairly high.

What does everyone else think?

[Apocalypse]

Hmmm...a coalition government. This makes up for a partisan like Timeline winning the VP race.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Ninot : you are definitely a man of dialogue

Trip was as well, dont forget

[notyoueither]

Anyone concerned about the integrity of our elections?

[Ninot]

I am slightly. It was fishy how much this vote was tied, but i think in the conclusion we reached, any lack of integrity is nullified in the fact that now the nation will be getting only the best from two sources.

But I don't point fingers as far as DL's are concerned. I know I didn't create any, and I am sure Trip never would think of making one either. Beyond that, its hard to control the integrity of the election very well.

[Spiffor]

As we can't know if the elections were cheatless, we can only hope no one used DLs. Maybe we could ask Ming, but I doubt he'll check all IPs of all voters

[notyoueither]

I have been discussing this with Ming. Unfortunately no help there.

re DLs. I trust that none of our own would do such a thing. I am thinking of some of the more... eccentric personalities who animate some of the other forums both here and on other boards.

/Edit. Ming was very quick to reply, and seemed genuinely helpful. Just he said it could not be done (check the voters).

[notyoueither]

No, I don't mean cfc either.

[Inverse Icarus]

Thats a damn lie and he knows it! it has to log the user ID or the Username so it can make sure u dont vote twice. a php script could be rigged up in no time.

[Moral Hazard]

Another conclusion is that the voters wanted neither of you ala Gore/Bush

[notyoueither]

UberKruX. It may very well be a site policy.

This is our democracy game. The gods may very well consider that managing ourselves is our own affair, not theirs.

If they get involved on this one, they might be inviting a storm of off site abuse which could bog us (and them) down.

[Papa Chubby]

So what you are doing is essentially throwing away the constitution that we the people have elected upon, because you believe that co=hosting presidency would be more fair. Ninot may have barely won, but he won nonetheless. Now don't take me as somekind of Ninot sympathiser, because I'm not, I actually voted for Trip. These things don's change the fact that Ninot won by a majority vote, no matter how close, it was a majority vote. Therefore Ninot should be president, Trip good run and liked having you as the president, but you should not be in the picture.

[notyoueither]

Actually Papa, the poll is still open.

Ninot anounced an agreement between he and Trip to minimize the impact of what is looking strongly like some kind of fraud.