I am outraged.

[Keystone Phil]

WTF, Naso, you deserve to lose this. I'll be the first one to congratulate Nym on his victory. This was classless

I am proley missing part of the story, But how do we know Naso did this?

Naso has told me he wasn't going to not PM/IM/e-mail inactives. Nym is obviously above PMing went that way and DemRepDan to win.

And how did this "went this way" guy find out there was an election when all he did was post on one day? Give me a break. This is all too much.

most likely he got a Naso PM.  Half of Naso's votes are from not very active people.

Uh..."went this way" went for Nym. Why would Naso PM him?

to get his vote, only it backfired.  Do you not see Naso's fingerprints all over the fact that every D3 inactive came back to vote?

Fritz went for Naso?

Fritz actually has a brain.  He's not going to vote for Naso. 

He already voted for Nym and has been inactive for awhile.

[A18]

Fritz actually has a brain.  He's not going to vote for Naso. 

Do you know what your sig is?

[Jake]

Fritz actually has a brain.  He's not going to vote for Naso. 

Do you know what your sig is?

satire, why?

[A18]

Um, okay. I don't get it.

[Jake]

Um, okay. I don't get it.

ok, just think about.  It's real important

[A18]

Nope, still don't get it.

[Jake]

Nope, still don't get it.

This one's deep "ace".  It'll take a long time.

[A18]

Oh, I get it now. Well, except that I don't. What the hell?

[King]

Oh, I get it now. Well, except that I don't. What the hell?

Exactly!

[dazzleman]

Maybe the rules should be changed to require a certain level of posting activity in the period prior to the election in order to vote.  There must be some measure of "citizenship" for a voter to be valid.

I can't comment on these specific cases because I have not followed them closely.

[Gabu]

Maybe the rules should be changed to require a certain level of posting activity in the period prior to the election in order to vote.  There must be some measure of "citizenship" for a voter to be valid.

There is one; it's just that they couldn't be applied to this election because that's how the legislation was written.  I didn't want it to be suddenly sprung on people out of nowhere without letting people become aware that such a policy exists, but in retrospect, making it applicable after all would probably have been a good idea.  Oh well, hindsight is 20/20.

[went that way]

Keystone
Naso did PM me telling me to vote for him.
I olny found out today by checking my email (which I checked today, something I rarely do).

[Keystone Phil]

Keystone
Naso did PM me telling me to vote for him.
I olny found out today by checking my email (which I checked today, something I rarely do).

Well I am sorry for saying Nym did that.

If he sent this awhile ago (around when you joined) maybe I can understand it but if it was sent anytime this week, I am very upset.

[went that way]

Keystone
"(No subject)
« Sent to: went that way on: 24 February 2005, 16:51:15 »
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Hey. I am Mike Naso, and I am running against Nym90 for District 3 Senate. This weekend are the elections, and I TRULY TRULY am asking for your vote. I am a moderate candidate who will work bi-partisan for Distrcit 3 and all of Atlasia. As Senator, I promise i will NOT let you down. I am Mike Naso, and I am asking for your vote."

"If he sent this awhile ago (around when you joined) maybe I can understand it but if it was sent anytime this week, I am very upset."
Did that too.

[Jake]

Keystone
Naso did PM me telling me to vote for him.
I olny found out today by checking my email (which I checked today, something I rarely do).

Thanks for the honesty, I hope you'll become a little more active.

[KEmperor]

Keystone
"(No subject)
« Sent to: went that way on: 24 February 2005, 16:51:15 »
   Reply with quote Reply Remove this message
Hey. I am Mike Naso, and I am running against Nym90 for District 3 Senate. This weekend are the elections, and I TRULY TRULY am asking for your vote. I am a moderate candidate who will work bi-partisan for Distrcit 3 and all of Atlasia. As Senator, I promise i will NOT let you down. I am Mike Naso, and I am asking for your vote."

"If he sent this awhile ago (around when you joined) maybe I can understand it but if it was sent anytime this week, I am very upset."
Did that too.

Three days ago then.

[Keystone Phil]

Keystone
"(No subject)
« Sent to: went that way on: 24 February 2005, 16:51:15 »
   Reply with quote Reply Remove this message
Hey. I am Mike Naso, and I am running against Nym90 for District 3 Senate. This weekend are the elections, and I TRULY TRULY am asking for your vote. I am a moderate candidate who will work bi-partisan for Distrcit 3 and all of Atlasia. As Senator, I promise i will NOT let you down. I am Mike Naso, and I am asking for your vote."

"If he sent this awhile ago (around when you joined) maybe I can understand it but if it was sent anytime this week, I am very upset."
Did that too.

Naso, I am ashamed of all this. I mean Nym had inactives vote for him, you had inactives vote for him...just four and a half hours left...

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

You guys should use Diebold, so that no one knows when the election is stolen.

[The Dowager Mod]

You guys should use Diebold, so that no one knows when the election is stolen.

HAHAHA

[Jake]

You guys should use Diebold, so that no one knows when the election is stolen.

oh, you're a riot.  Leave troll

[© tweed]

Maybe the rules should be changed to require a certain level of posting activity in the period prior to the election in order to vote.  There must be some measure of "citizenship" for a voter to be valid.

I can't comment on these specific cases because I have not followed them closely.

But once you agree in principle to do such a thing you have to agree on where to draw the line.  Some complicated mathematical formula like you divide the membership into 3 periods and at least 15% of the total posts have to be in the third period.  Too hard to do, wouldn't work.

[Gabu]

Maybe the rules should be changed to require a certain level of posting activity in the period prior to the election in order to vote.  There must be some measure of "citizenship" for a voter to be valid.

I can't comment on these specific cases because I have not followed them closely.

But once you agree in principle to do such a thing you have to agree on where to draw the line.  Some complicated mathematical formula like you divide the membership into 3 periods and at least 15% of the total posts have to be in the third period.  Too hard to do, wouldn't work.

The current line we have is "25 posts between elections".

[Jake]

Maybe the rules should be changed to require a certain level of posting activity in the period prior to the election in order to vote.  There must be some measure of "citizenship" for a voter to be valid.

I can't comment on these specific cases because I have not followed them closely.

But once you agree in principle to do such a thing you have to agree on where to draw the line.  Some complicated mathematical formula like you divide the membership into 3 periods and at least 15% of the total posts have to be in the third period.  Too hard to do, wouldn't work.

The current line we have is "25 posts between elections".

which is arbitrary and in hindsight, maybe it should be 20, maybe 50. 

[Siege40]

I'm glad I didn't PM anyone, that was a good policy to swear on, whew...

Siege

[ThePrezMex]

I joined the Fantasy Board because I thought it was fun.
What you are all saying is complete nonsense. You are trying to regulate the Fantasy Forum out of existence. For once I totally agree with States Rights, you are taking the fun out of it.
You all seem to be just concentrated in the process and technicalities and not on the important issues.
I don't see anything wrong with trying to woo inactive voters. Not everybody spends the entire day here, people are busy. Perhaps they joined sometime and then didn't have time to get back. A reminder from a candidate is a good way to try to make them come back and get interested again. Trying to invite people that are active in other forums but not the Fantasy one is great. I got an invitation some months ago and I decided to join; I felt good to get that invitation, because I thought it was just a game of 'insiders' and that it was not really open for everybody. The invitation made me see that it was not that way.
Trying to enroll people and inviting them to vote is a great GOTV effort, this is one thing that we should learn to do if we want to go into real politics.
I don't see anything wrong with bringing inactive voters, as long as they come under their own volition.
Another totally different thing is making up false profiles or invented persons in order to vote, that is fraud. But as I have read here, you are all very good at tracing IP's and all that, so you could enforce that pretty easily.