Talk Elections

- Here you can take out an option on an idea of survivor, so that other forumers don't "steal" the idea (;)).

Options are valid for 2 months: during these 2 months, only the forumer who has taken out the option is authorized to manage the corresponding survivor.
If not used, the option can be renewed only after 1 more month.

- What is more, for off-topic survivors, there is a waiting list, where you must put down your idea of off-topic survivor.

Only the first 5 of the list can be run at the same time and one forumer can't manage more than 2 off-topic survivors at any given time.

- If the idea of a survivor is stolen, it will be deleted.
If an off-topic survivor is started too early, I'll lock it.

List of options taken out on ideas of ON-TOPIC survivors
(valid for 2 months after the listed date;
after 2 months, please PM the posters before stealing their idea... ;)):

World leaders who lost their job in 2011 (Antonio V - 13 Nov 11)
US Governors (officepark - 29 Sep 11)
Presidents of the French Radical parties (big bad fab - 27 May 11)
Democratic presidential candidates 1900-1956 (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
Democratic presidential candidates 1960-2008 (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
Republican presidential candidates 1900-1956 (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
Republican presidential candidates 1960-2008 (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
New England counties (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
Hispanic US Representatives (homelycooking - 1 Sep 10)
Chinese Politburo (big bad fab - 28 July 10)
Gestapo (jdb - 24 May 10)
WWII political leaders (Kalwejt - 9 March 10)
Spanish and Portuguese navigators and conquistadores (Hans-im-Glück - 29 Jan 10)

Waiting list of ideas of OFF-TOPIC survivors
(only 5 at a time are allowed to be managed):

70s-80s bands (Cincinnatus - 6 July 11)
Futurama characters (Kalwejt - 22 May 11)
Native American flags (Obamanation - 28 Feb 11)
Southern Africa Parliaments and Congresses (hughento - 20 Jan 11)
US States mottos (Edu - 5 Dec 10)
James Bond girls (Magic 8-Ball - 5 Dec 10)

List of inactive survivors, with the latest round older than 3 weeks or suspended by their manager or created by a now-banned forumer, and hence available to be restarted or resumed, provided they abide by the rules on off-topic survivors:

BEWARE ! THIS LIST MAY NOT BE UPDATED !
CHECK EACH SURVIVOR AND ASK THE MODERATOR FIRST, IF NEED BE !

Signatories of the anti-Comintern or Tripartite Pacts
Handsomest/Most attractive/Sexiest G20 heads of State/Governement
Female US Senators
Political leaders who lost their job in 2011
People who appear on series I US savings bonds
Pacific-12 conference
2nd Comité de Salut Public
Dem nomination 2004
Countries without a seashore
Polish political families
Pennsylvania counties
Post-1991 New England Republican governors
Minister-presidents of the German federal states
Years of the 20th century
Atomic club
European regionalist and minority parties
US Supreme Court Justices by president
Pollster
Living former US Governors
Current US Senators' immediate predecessors
20th/21st centuries placeholder US Senators
US House of Representatives
Spanish autonomous communities
Brazilian presidential contenders
Conservative parties of Canada leaders
Minister-Presidents of the German Federal States
Middle Eastern countries and territories
Chancellors of the German Empire
Chancellors of the Weimar Republic
The Avengers TV series characters
Super Bowl winners and losers
US Senate (90th Congress version)
Electoral vote
North Carolina Senators
Minnesota counties
2010 Freshmen Governors
Governors of New Jersey
US Senate Majority Whips
US Senate Minority Leaders
US House Majority Leaders
Rulers of Russia, 1283-present
Non-top two recipients of electoral votess
Stephen King books
Western films
Bond villains
James Cameron films
Mitt Romney
Execution methods
TIME person of the year 2010 candidates
Main left-wing parties in the 20 largest democratic economies
Main right-wing parties in the 20 largest democratic economies
Indiana Congressional delegation
Wartime presidents of the US
Scandinavian party logos
French by-elections (12th & 13th legislatures)
Polish Voivodeships
British cities
UK political parties
UK general elections (1945-present)
US political parties
US Secretaries of State
US Secretaries of Defense
US Speakers of the House of Representatives (last 100 years)
PMs of Quebec
Georgia (US) Senators (1900-...)
New Jersey representatives
Presidential slogans
Virginia representatives
Great composers
2000 Presidential election
General secretaries of the CPSU
Georgia (US) governors
South African presidents
Taft
2000 Republican party primary
1988 Democratic party primary
Clinton primary states 2008
House Democrats
111th Congress freshmen (only Rep.)
House Republicans
Diplomacy
French presidents of regional councils
Post-1989 Polish PMs
Polish United Workers' Party 1st secretaries
Post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi leaders
Australasian leaders
US House subcommittee on Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship
US Senators from CA since 1945

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List of active survivors, with the latest round updated in the last 3 weeks (manageable only by their creator):
Post-WW2 Prime ministers of France
World's current dictators
Olympic Sports
City-Off
Non-presidential heads of state of the French Republic
Failed French presidential candidates
Presidents of Poland
Counties of the US

Post in this thread your requests for off-topic survivors and your options for future on-topic survivors.

Put me on the off-topic wait list for a Stephen King book survivor

Done.

But if you want to start immediately, it's OK, as hughento and Edu haven't answered to my PM asking them if they launch their own ideas.

Hughento, Edu, if you have changed your mind, just shout ;).

Oops, i just noticed i have a bunch of unread PM's, not only from you fab, sorry.

I know i suck at promising to start survivors so i'm fine with Mr X starting his :)

Please put me in the queue for an "Instruments of the Orchestra" survivor. Does this sound interesting to anyone?

I'd probably be in.

If you want to start it now, it's OK, as Mr X's Stephen King seems indeed not to have a great success.

I like this idea.

I have got an idea for 2 new Survivors:

Monarchs of England 1066 to present

and an off-topic Survivor:

Football World Cup Winners

On the 5th of March, when Edu's option will fall, or before if homely's or my off-topic survivors are finished, you'll be able to start your own, Hans.

(I'm not sure to be in, as I wouldn't know how to vote ;). It would be on "bad" criterions, I think, I mean criterions not really linked to football value)

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I've got other ideas for the on-topic survivors: you'll see, guys ;D.

As for the off-topic ones, would you take part in a Futurama characters survivor ?
(a large one, with all small characters, including Nixon's head, of course ;D)

If hughento doesn't start his off-topic survivor, you'll be able to start your Football Cup winners, Hans.

I've just PMed him: let's wait a bit.

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No interest in a Futurama characters survivor ?

I'll stzart on the weekend with the FWC-Winners Survivor, as long hughento don't start his survior.

To your question: I'm not the biggest Futurama-fan, but I know enough to vote in a survivor about it.

Would there be any interest in a survivor on dog breeds? It would use the list of breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club, which would be divided into two groups. If there is sufficient interest, I'll ask for it to be added to the waiting list.

No interest from me: I know absolutely nothing and I don't intend to learn about them ;).

I remember that there are dog breeders or sons of dog breeders who pushed laws on the subject in Atlasia.
Badger ? Maybe some others. Maybe you can search threads on the subject in Atlasia boards (especially Mideast Assembly) and PM them. Just an idea... ;)

As my Futurama characters doesn't seem to be very popular,
as, anyway, the list is a bit hard to set for the moment, given the fact I'm pretty busy,

I delete my option on it, but will start later today 2 new off-topic survivors (hughento and Obamanation are silent on their own):

Modern Latin alphabet
and
Arabic digits

I seem to recall you did something similar a tiny bit over a year ago.

I must be becoming mad, but I vaguely recall something too, but I don't find anything, neither in the "database" of this sub-board, nor by searching the forum.

Was it a failed attempt ? or was it only an idea ? or a thread deleted by an angry mod before the survivormaniacs were "deported" here ?

Anyway, as there is no mark for more than one year, it's allowed to (re)start them ;).

It was an April Fool's joke that you deleted yourself after one day.

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now, I'm doing it for real, seriously....
::)

This is where you see how deep is your own decline through the years...
What is fun is that the idea has popped again in my mind 2 days ago :P.
I'm really an "automatic" genius ! ;D (no, don't try to understand...)

Fortunately, I've got some more serious ideas when these 2 are over.
(in fact, I was a bit disappointed not to succeed in setting easily a fine list of Ukrainian heads of state and/or government, with all the regimes, so I turned to this low idea...)

But I do understand. You're obviously a robot! :P

I thought of a small, no nonsense one on German Vice Chancellors, to honor the recent transition from Mr Westerwelle to Mr Rösler. ;D

;D

Jürgen W. Möllemann for Survivor :D

Fine !

Well, since my 90th Congress US Senate survivor is a total failure, I'm thinking of starting a new one for years of the 20th Century. What do you guys think?

(A pity for you 90th Congress one, but even Kal's Stalin inner circle (the finest idea ever :P) hadn't a big turnout and I still hesitate on my Chinese Politburo idea)

Great !

I was just thinking about one on centuries... of course being a bit skeptical on centuries BC :P
If someone wants to use the idea, (s)he's welcome.

I have an idea for an off topic Survivor:

Super Bowl Winners and Losers. If approved, they will be two separate survivors

OK

Do I have to wait or can I go ahead and do both?

You can do both of them, no problem, as Kal hasn't started his own.

How interested would anyone be if I did one on 70-80s bands?  Of course, the band list would be completely at my mercy, so you'd have to endure my great taste in music.

That could be fun, though the Europeans may not have a great knowledge in the bands you'd pick.
I'm interested but not sure until I'll see the list.

Well.. off the top of my head;

Pink Floyd, Beatles, Yes, The Who, CSNY, Genesis, Boston, Cream (Eric Clapton), Deep Purple, The Doors, Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Rush, among others.

If I included musicians ;

Elton John,  Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Jim Croce (Might not know him), Clapton, Marley, Dylan.

I have others, just listing some of the one's I can think of immediately.

Good, I know all of them except Rush, Jim Croce and CSNY ;D

At least, you'll have Edu.
As for me... well... I have weird tastes: between Dvorak and Depeche Mode, there is almost nothing :P
So, I'm not sure at all to cast a ballot.
But I'm sure you'll have many voters, especially if you PM some US and UK firends on this forum.

I kept thinking I'd get back to it, but I don't think I will.  Consider the Electoral Vote survivor to be abandoned to be either picked up by someone else or started anew.

I was thinking of doing two more survivors:

-Famous anime series survivor
-Famous Looney Tunes characters survivor

Are those survivors OK?

Yes, but one after the other, as there are already 2 off-topic survivors running.

Is it OK for me to do a members of the Knesset survivor? Or is that too long? If it's too long, I can do a members of the Knesset survivor with each party done separately?

Keep in mind that an Israeli Political Parties survivor has already been done. Besides, I, for one, don't know enough to vote on each MK individually.

Can you calm down a bit ? :P

You've got many ideas but it seems not every one of them is well followed.

With this survivor, you won't have a big turnout, probably (I won't be able to vote in it, for the same reasons as homely).
Either by party or as only one survivor, it'd be very difficult to know enough about every MP.

And if others of your survivors have a turnout too low for your taste, just let us know by saying a survivor is dropped (taht's not an obligation, but this info could be useful).

Hi, I'd like to take an option for an Episodes of Doctor Who (2005-2009) survivor. I'm not starting it until at least one month (taking a little break after my "big" survivor ;)), but I think there would be a few people who'd be interested in participating.

OK (just FYI, I won't vote in it: not a fan)

I dropped my Anime Shows Survivor due to low participation. I might need to drop my Family Guy Characters Survivor, but I will wait a day or two to see if more people will vote in it.

Lol, I had to look up Doctor Who because I didn't know what the hell it was :P ;D

Hi. I've only started looking around this board since the past few days, but is there any interest for a dominant parties survivor?

If I did this, it would be quite ambitious and would play very differently from most survivors, so I would like to know if there are any rules on the conduct of them.

Nope, you are free to create your own game rules, provided there is a survivor in the end ;D.
Just remember that turnout is varying and sometimes low, especially in holiday and exams periods ;).

"Dominant parties" all over the world ? The subject hasn't been used, so it's up to you.

By dominant parties you mean parties that actually win elections around the world?

That's gonna be a huge one, for sure. ;)


As for Doctor Who, there is a consistent clique of fans among the forum (Archangel aka "the Doctor" ;D, PiT, Al, Afleitch, Johnny and some other guys), I think that'll be enough to make the survivor workable. Of course even non-fans are invited if they have some basic knowledge of the series. ;)

There are a couple of general unwritten rules. First, don't fix the results, because that will piss everybody off. Secondly, rounds should last at least 24 hours so that people who can only log in once per day can still participate. On a survivor of the scale you are suggesting, I recommend even longer rounds so that people have time to do some research.

Other than that, the manager of the survivor has free rein to set his own rules.

I have decided to drop my Family Guy Characters survivor as well due to a lack of interest. I am not going to lock it, though, just because someone else might want to participate and revive it at a later date.

Also, after I am done with my Israeli Districts survivor, can I please do two more?:

-Countries of the former Soviet Union Survivor
-Countries of the former Yugoslavia Survivor

I don't think that either of these survivors has been done yet.

You can do both of them. Thanks God, they are "on-topic".

But, please, don't eliminate too many names at once: they are short survivors, so eliminate one by one.
It's more suspenseful, more pleasant and it may avoid ties more easily ;).

I'd like to restart this (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=136481.0) survivor at some point.  I'd imagine it's off-topic so let me know when I can do it.  I'd like to change the rules a little bit as to pit a NT book V an OT book in the end, if that's supported.

You have my blessing.

I intended to do it too, but you're welcome.
And since Darth Yelnoc is OK and Rochambeau's off-topic survivors are suspended, all is fine.

Your idea of new rules is excellent.

People of survivorland !

Rochambeau is now banned... So, all his survivors are now free for anyone who wants to keep them working or to restart them from the beginning !

Just let me know that you want to relaunch or restart them before doing it ;).

Thanks a lot.

(sorry for not updating all the lists of survivors opened, available or not, etc. But it's late and I'm fed up with dealing with all these lil' problems... :P)

He's banned?!? When did this happen?

The only one that he has that I'd even care to take over is the Middle Eastern Countries survivor.

I'll take over the Nuclear Club Survivor, altho I'd like to restart it to include a few more entries.

We have a deal here.

Take it when you wish.

Probably Wednesday.  I'm not staying at my house at the moment.

I have enough by now, so would anyone be interested in an off-topic "Homely's survivors" survivor?

Is anyone interested in a Survivor about "States with Spanish as official language"

Yeah, sure!

^^^^^^^^

Definitely.

No one thought about doing 'hurt and heal' lists?

Every option starts off with 10 points. You can vote to 'hurt' one (minus 1 point) and to 'heal' one (plus 1) each road (you can also do two per group etc)

So if Smith is hurt, hurt, heal, heal, heal for example he goes from 10 to 9 to 10 to 11. If they get to 0 when the round is over or are the lowest, they can be eliminated.

Libertas launched one on European languages with the same principle, except that there weren't rounds and languages were ousted only when reaching zero point.

I voted, then was bored, then voted again just to end it as quickly as possible :P

With rounds with time limits, it would work better !

afleitch, you can start your survivor as soon as you want ;).

God, I hate those. Please, just no.

Thinking about starting up a Pennsylvania counties Survivor.

Hi,

I'd like to start a survivor with 'countries without a ocean shoreline'.

If it is okay i'm going to to start on sunday.

Oh, our sub-board is alive again ? :)

OK for both of you.

I'd like to start a US governors survivor and a US congress survivor, if they're available.

Both are available.

But be sure you want to start such a big survivor with all the Congress :P.

And maybe you can finish your US cities one before ;).

Any interest in a "Major Players of the Dreyfus Affair" survivor?

Handsomest G20 head of states?

Taking an option for a "World leaders who lost their job in 2011" survivor (there are quite a lot of them). I'll start it in early January.

I should update the lists... :P
The turnout is low that I'm lazy.
But your option is of course valid, Antonio.

One more !

Even though, technically, Zapatero would have lost his job anyways. ;)

How about a survivor of 2nd place finishers in presidential elections?

I would vote, as I'm sure several others would.  It's not an off-topic, so BBF shouldn't care when you start it.

Yep, you can start when you want.
And I'd be in, sure.

You come up with the oddest survivor ideas, but yeah, obviously I'm in :)

I'd be in too, of course, but I'm not sure of the success of this idea (see Kal's Comité de Salut Public)

Has there ever been a "Byzantine Emperors from Theodosius I* to Constantine XII**"?

*: Or you could pick Constantine I, or Arcadius, or Justinian. Depending on where you dran the line.

**: Or Constantine XI, if you don't want to include any of the Lascarids.

Nope, it was an idea since my Roman Emperors... but I didn't launch it.
This would be a VERY fine idea :)

I'd like to start a Michigan governors and Michigan counties survivor, and possibly one of Michigan gubernatorial losers starting from a given point.  (I'd start with the first two.)  What do you think?

Only the Governors thread sounds interesting.
We are very few regular survivor players left (and the moderator has actually left the board because it is considered dead), so you should take that into account before you start anything up.

Could I start it on this board then?

Yes, its still open. I just meant that it is difficult to get people to play survivors.

Should I start and quit if there's not much activity?

Yeah, I think you need 5 regular voters (incl. yourself) to keep it interesting, so if you dont get that during the first three rounds it might be better to stop.
Try the governors, thats your best bet IMO.

Should I ask if anyone would be interested?

I just had an idea for an off-topic one: official canon of Disney animated films.

Nah, just start it and see how it goes.

How do you determine when a round ends?

Its your call, but normally it should last at least 24 hours to allow everybody a chance to vote, but if all regular voters have voted you can close it a little early.

How about living former Cabnet members? Every Cabet from Johnson and onward has at least a few living members.