Greetings Voters,

We have heard your feedback on the voting system UI and have made some changes to make it easier to vote, especially for those of you voting with multiple accounts.

• We have added the ability to double click on a candidate and their entry will be added to the next open preference slot.


• Your voting preference list will be stored locally on your device. This means that if you fill out a ballot and then log into an alt character, your previous voting choices will be restored automatically and you may then alter them as you wish. We hope this will alleviate some of the fatigue of voting with large numbers of accounts. We would like to reiterate that this is a local function and not stored by or transmitted to CCP or any 3rd party group.


• While the candidate list will always appear in a random order upon opening, to make it easier to find the candidates you are looking for you may select to sort them from A-Z


• These changes are likely to disable many of the popular voting scripts that have been created by players to automatically fill out ballots. We would appreciate it if these were not recreated, voting should be done by people, not scripts. We hope that the UI difficulties that made people feel these were necessary have been fixed.


• If you are having any additional problems with the UI for voting or if you have any suggestions on ways we can further improve our UI please send an eve-mail to CCP Dolan

These updates are live.

I suggest for next time a proxy mechanism

naturally, the ceo of the alliance holding corp, or the ceo of an individual corp, can be assumed to be natural representative of their members

so, in the latter half of the election to increase the representativeness of the CSM and to get more people voting, the CEO of the holding corp or the ceo of an individual corp could cast a proxy ballot on behalf of their members who could not vote. naturally, those members could cast an individual vote previously or assign their proxy to someone else

this inventive method would increase the number of voters and allow a more representative and legitimate csm, as it was formed from the input of more subscribers

hahahaha, no.

Your voting preference list will be stored locally on your device. This means that if you fill out a ballot and then log into an alt character, your previous voting choices will be restored automatically and you may then alter them as you wish. We hope this will alleviate some of the fatigue of voting with large numbers of accounts. We would like to reiterate that this is a local function and not stored by or transmitted to CCP or any 3rd party group.

Perhaps future changes to the voting system should be publically tested to avoid situations of this kind.

Meanwhile, the groups that have deployed these scripts would no doubt like to thank you for locking in the huge advantage they have gained by this. At this stage, you might as well leave the option open to at least level the playing field.

hahahaha, no.

CSM didn't get an advance look either; if we had, I would have raised serious concerns about usability. Even with the ability to double-click, one of the fundamental problems with the ballot is that it is very hard to find the candidates you want.

I am sure that CSM8 will have some things to say about this at the next summit.

Also it seems that in the crusade to have every vote count, abstain is no longer there.

I can't confirm that myself as I voted without looking for it.


But a fair few seem to be grumbling about its non-existance.

what if the proxies could be sold on the market, so the wealthiest and most interested parties can reach a mutually beneficial exchange with the poorer and less interested parties

after all, free markets make free people

work with me here

It was too hard to drag the abstain choice 14 different times.

So CCP decided to get rid of it. Its in the minutes.

I thought I deleted that one

But Abstain is needed only once.

It is this crusade to make every vote count that will lower the voting, and lack of advertising, and the fact that the Null blocks came up with a Fix, then everyone else did, then that fix was stopped, oh and did I mention the lack of advertising for the CSM.