There are 204 persons who have received Electoral Votes in U.S. Presidential Elections. This contest will select who among them is worthy of being the survivor. Rules are explained in full in the
organization thread.
To begin with there are twelve tribes of seventeen members each. The tribes are named after Zodiac signs, but people have been placed into them randomly, and not because of their birth sign. The second set of three tribes to vote will be the Cancer, Leo, and Virgo tribes. After 5 rounds, the Cancer, Leo, and Virgo tribes will be merged into the Summer tribe. The Summer tribe will later merge with the Winter tribe to form the Solstice tribe which will later merge with the Equinox tribe to form the final tribe.
Each survivor begins with a number of safety points and can gain safety points during the contest, Safety points are used as the first tiebreaker if there is a tie. The members of the Virgo tribe are, along with their initial safety points and the elections in which they won electoral college votes are:
William O. Butler [1 safety point, VP (1848)]
Harry Byrd [2 safety points, P (1960)]
Dwight D. Eisenhower [4 safety points, P (1948, 1952)] immune ROUNDS 1 to 4William Graham [1 safety point, VP (1852)]
Barry Goldwater [3 safety points, P (1964), VP (1960)] eliminated ROUND 1Charles Jenkins [2 safety points, P (1872)]
Samuel Johnston [1 safety point, VP (1796)]
Walter Jones [2 safety points, P (1956)]
Robert LaFollette [2 safety points, P (1924)]
John Logan [1 safety point, VP (1884)]
Theodora Nathan [1 safety point, VP (1972)]
Richard Nixon [8 safety points, P (1960, 1968, 1972), VP (1948, 1952)]
Sarah Palin [1 safety point, VP (2008)] eliminated ROUND 1Franklin D. Roosevelt [9 safety points, P (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944), VP (1920)]
Winfield Scott [2 safety points, P (1852)]
Edward Telfair [1 safety point, VP (1789)]
Thomas Watson [1 safety point, VP (1896)]
Voting:Cast 10 eliminate votes as you wish between one to four people, save that you cannot give two people the same number of eliminate votes.
Cast 3 keep votes as you wish between one or two people.
Give one person a safety point, but you cannot give a safety point to someone in the same round you give them a keep vote.
Also, since this is the first round of a new tribe, cast one vote for immunity.
This round will be open for at least 24 hours.
(Note: While persons were randomly assigned tribes, the Virgo tribe ended up with the two people with the highest number of initial safety points, Nixon at 8 and FDR at 9. There are four survivors in other tribes with 7 initial safety points.
