Election: President

[notyoueither]

It will. Vote!

[TheGreatKaspi]

At least their is a good turnout

[Jon Shafer]

To avoid further chaos and confusion, I hereby officially concede defeat, and allow Ninot the full position of President. I had not anticipated such problems, and therefore, he who reaps the wind must harvest the whirlwind.

[Apocalypse]

Now that this is over we can look at what is really important: a supreme court.

[FrostyBoy]

Next time, those who vote must also post saying who they voted for.

[wervdon]

Originally posted by Trip
To avoid further chaos and confusion, I hereby officially concede defeat, and allow Ninot the full position of President. I had not anticipated such problems, and therefore, he who reaps the wind must harvest the whirlwind.

I appreciate what your trying to do, and I think its currently a valid choice, but in the long run I think it should be made impossible for the winner of an election to concede defeat resulting in the loser winning. It doesnt look like you'll win this anyways (but it could change), but I dont like the idea of a possible future scenario where someone takes office with only a small fraction of the vote because the more popular guy stepped down at the last minute. In those situations, I think it should result in a "invalid poll" (since one of the options on it was no longer an option) and a revote. In any case, its just something else to address in our election reform ammendment


Oh and if I didn't say it before Trip, I also appreciate what you and Ninot tried to do by settling this, I didn't agree with it, but I know you both had the best of intentions.

[Timeline]

Yes, they BOTH meant well, but they just went about it the wrong way.

Hail Ninot!

Now, on to the Supreme Court issue...

[Edrix]

Originally posted by Trip
To avoid further chaos and confusion, I hereby officially concede defeat, and allow Ninot the full position of President. I had not anticipated such problems, and therefore, he who reaps the wind must harvest the whirlwind.

Noble thing you've done here, Trip, and I commend you for it.
And you didn't even drag it out for three months like Gore did, so we can be even happier...
Congratulations, Ninot! Lead us to glory.

[civman2000]

the difference is that gore had a very legitimate case and was right too

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by civman2000
the difference is that gore had a very legitimate case and was right too

he lost anyway. they did an unofficial recount. he lost. end of story, stop whining.

[Kramerman]

Was that in a local, non-syndicated paper? I tend to stay on top of political cartoons from Newsweek/ Newyork Times and my local paper, and I haven't seen this one.

EDIT: What an elction America had. I mean, has there ever been two poorer candidates for the most powerful man in the world to run simultaneously? We even had crapier 3rd party candidates. Could you imagine Ralph Nater (who, btw, looks alot by Michael Richards[Cosmo Kramer]) waging the war on Terrorism. He would rathe **** a tree. No offense to any Green Party supporters ; or any party supporters for that matter out there.

[Robber Baron]

Trip, you went out with class, and our polity is stronger for it. Thanks. :b :b :b

[Kramerman]

Hey, where did all you guys get those flags next to your names? I want one!

[wervdon]

Originally posted by Kramerman
Hey, where did all you guys get those flags next to your names? I want one!

Edit your profile, and select your country from the list it puts the flag for that country next to your name.


EDIT: Answered my own question, I feel blind that I didn't see the big POLL: flag for apolytonia thread below It'd still be cool if we could pick Apolytonia as our country and have it beside our names as citizens/minsters though

[Kramerman]

That would be cool. We would need to design a flag, cause I don't think we have one. Definately be interseting from a role playing point of view.