Reveal and other important Election stuff!

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Considering I've never paid attention to the campaigns before, let alone actually participated in them before, I'm still rather confused. This whole election is not newbie friendly

The other parties failed to submit anything by the deadline, so unfortunately they miss out! Better luck next time!

I'm told that those of us who failed to submit anything can still survive. This quote doesn't make it sound like that is the case. Are we supposed to vote on a candidate that everyone thought pretty much defaulted out of the election? Why was this not originally explained?

Those who missed the deadline miss out on the opportunity to submit things. Simple as that. From my experience, it seems only your own party members that thought you had prematurely exited from the competition.

Oh, as for the other important Election stuff...Preliminary voting starts now.

What? What "other important election" stuff? We're supposed to start voting on things that haven't even been mentioned yet? Or do you mean THIS "election stuff"?

Not all of our parties will continue onwards, so you, the citizens of EoFF, must vote for the party you want to continue!

Putting together what's been said in threads and what's being said here, you're seriously saying that parties who did not submit anything, and are not even listed in this thread, can still continue by some miracle of voting? (Not that that's going to happen. But again, shouldn't that be explained here?)

The oversight by not listing the parties who you can vote for is one I admit to. However the point of preliminary voting is to cull the fat as it were. The Princess Party doesn't want to play ball any more, for example.

The "other important election stuff" is referencing the title. There's the reveal of the arts submissions and then the "other" which is the fact that the first round of voting happens now. Yes, you do vote on things that haven't happened yet. But this isn't the final vote so this sort of stuff happens.

NOTE: Each vote must be accompanied with at least one (1) and no more than four (4) areas that you feel EoFF needs:
To add
To improve on
To change
To remove
etc

Now what's the protocol for this? Just "I vote the Yahtzee party to continue and we need more cheese dishes laid out for incoming newbies"??

The point of this is simple. We can run the elections as a smurfabout, that in the end achieves nothing and is just a bit of gloating and fun, or we can try and add an element that will actually do something to help EoFF. After all, real elections tend to have some sort of "fix the goddamn country" policy.

I've explained as best I could. You might never have paid attention to elections before, but this is only the second one I have been involved in and I'm still trying to learn the ropes whilst bringing a fun and useful elections during a time period where I'm run off my feet and (now) confined to bed because of illness.

I apologise that certain things seem conflicting or underexplained. In future, I'll endeavour to correct this. There is still an hour and forty five minutes before the deadline for voting. I encourage everyone to submit votes if they haven't already. I'm going to try heaving up my guts in the hope it makes me feel better.