WHAT? I'm just a stupid Octopus?!?! (election results)

[Leeza]

I want to know 1 thing. How many people voted based off of what was said for each canadate's "thing". Like for the chrono forum we had to find a funny chrono website. How many people based their vote off of that for each forum.

I did. It took me days, but seeing the amount of straight jacket voters there were I'd say that it was a waste of my time.

I don't think straight ticket voting is bad for party leaders. I'd be a crap leader if I didn't put every ounce of effort I had into helping those that I lead. They stood by me, so I'll stand by them until the end. I have a very strong sense of loyalty.

Of course it's not bad for party leaders because it gets them in, but what kind of leaders do you end up with when you know that they weren't voted in because they were the best in their field? I'd say that this is one of the reasons the governments are in such a mess in the first place.

However, by my votes #eoff is still the winner so I guess all is well. Congratulations.

[Del Murder]

Haha, Leeza has a point.

[Awrini]

I'm starting to wonder if I got any votes outside the #eoff party now.

As for the way I voted, well it sure was far from straight ticket. I voted for the responces I liked, and for some others based on name alone. IE: Bleys and Unne

[PearlRose]

When I cast my votes, I looked at the responses for each candidate for each forum, and voted based on what I thought was the "best" anwser.

In cases where there was more than one "best" anwser in my opinion, or if I felt I didn't know enough about that forum to choose a good anwser, then I would vote party lines.

And toward the end, when I was getting tired, I scrutinized the candidate's anwsers less and was more biased toward party lines/users I recognized and/or liked.

Can't remember my final tally, but I think I voted for every party at least once. ^^

[Loony BoB]

I did. It took me days, but seeing the amount of straight jacket voters there were I'd say that it was a waste of my time.

Of course it's not bad for party leaders because it gets them in, but what kind of leaders do you end up with when you know that they weren't voted in because they were the best in their field? I'd say that this is one of the reasons the governments are in such a mess in the first place.

However, by my votes #eoff is still the winner so I guess all is well. Congratulations.

Given that some people in our party got 50+ votes and one person got 15 votes, I'd say it was definitely the non-straight-ticket voters that decided who won. How else would Del Murder have won Feedback?

As for larger parties having an advantage because of straight-ticket voters, that's only logical given that some people should take into account the policies a party stands for and obviously a lot of members of a party will vote only for their party because of the policies. =] If governments were voted on witty responses, you could end up with Satan in your leader's seat.

[The Captain]

"If governments were voted on witty responses, you could end up with Satan in your leader's seat."

It does happen in some sense as it is true that President Bush makes plenty of people laugh, though mostly we're not laughing WITH him.

Take care all.

[nik0tine]

Wow, I totally forgot that this was going on.

[Armisael]

Well done to everyone!^_^

[boris no no]

Four leaders made it into the 'government' - Loony BoB, Psychotic, boris no no and Del Murder.

i'm still confused about this!
i'm still a relativly newbie so.....
whats it about?
i didn'y really think that i'd win my forum so.....what does it mean?
pleasy? can BoB or a staff help me?
i dunno whats going on.

[Loony BoB]

i'm still confused about this!
i'm still a relativly newbie so.....
whats it about?
i didn'y really think that i'd win my forum so.....what does it mean?
pleasy? can BoB or a staff help me?
i dunno whats going on.

It's just like normal governments - just because a party has their leader in the government doesn't mean their party leader is anything more than a party leader. So there are four party leaders included in the government but the winner is that stupid idiot who managed to get his party to win more forums than the rest of 'em.

[fire_of_avalon]

i'm still confused about this!
i'm still a relativly newbie so.....
whats it about?
i didn'y really think that i'd win my forum so.....what does it mean?
pleasy? can BoB or a staff help me?
i dunno whats going on.

xD I had the same problem when I won last year. I thought I had to start doing important stuff or something, but no. We just get to mock the losers and do nothing .

*mocks Proto*

[boris no no]

*mocks myself*
cool! okies then"

i have no power!

[Jojee]

Love is power

[boris no no]

Love is power

yeah!
i love you all!

[Jojee]

Me too [img]http://home.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/heart.gif[/img]

And by that definition, the Fluffy Pink party wins ^__^