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Serenity Steele
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Posted - 2008.05.19 06:46:00 -
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Wednesday to release the results isn't too bad. They will need to be preparing their press-releases as well, as I'm sure it won't simply be a matter of releasing the results, but also sending information out to the RL press about the winning candidates.
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Posted - 2008.05.19 08:55:00 -
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I'll be interested to see the distribution of votes when plotted against the sequential order of the voting application form. 
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Posted - 2008.05.19 10:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Omber Zombie
should have done it aussie style - everyone has to vote, even if it's to abstain.
I agree, although I'm possibly slightly biased being a fellow Aussie.
The only problem with that system was the fine was AUD$50 if you didn't vote, so when I was travelling during election time, I used to pay my brother AUD$50 to go vote on my behalf to save the fine and the hassle of postal voting.
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Posted - 2008.05.19 11:21:00 -
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Originally by: Serenity Steele
Originally by: Omber Zombie
should have done it aussie style - everyone has to vote, even if it's to abstain.
I agree, although I'm possibly slightly biased being a fellow Aussie.
The only problem with that system was the fine was AUD$50 if you didn't vote, so when I was travelling during election time, I used to pay my brother AUD$50 to go vote on my behalf to save the fine and the hassle of postal voting.
Originally by: Semkhet
Retorsion against potential non voters simply translates into increasing the number of registered votes at the price of the pertinence of the voting results since ppl end voting out of their butts. There are a number of countries which indeed implement fines if you don't go to vote and control carefully the ID of the voter. Argentina is one of them IIRC. Unfortunately this concept doesn't solve the problems of political corruption by a single iota...
After all, humans are humans, and when you tempt the devil, well, that's what you get in return
You got any facts to back that up, or are you just stating an opinion?
I understand why the statements you make about RL politics, but IMO; I seriously wonder if all the reasons RL politics have evolved the way they do, are a relevant comparison for 'politics' within EVE.
Particularly given a representative council that;
- Does not have decision making power and only has recommendation power
- Is effectively volunteer
- Has limited ability to leverage RL value from participation
- Is in an MMO where the rules can be changed by CCP at anytime it's looking stodgey.
Hell, it's meant to increase efficiency of issues reaching CCP, not to provide a salary to politicians.
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Posted - 2008.05.19 14:36:00 -
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Originally by: Omber Zombie
my point was that at least if we used a compulsory voting system, more people might actually have taken notice of this or become interested.
and as for the abstain option in the Aussie political system - there's not actual 'abstain' you can choose, but you can fill out a form incorrectly to make your vote not count. It's not illegal to do so and commonly referred to as a Donkey Vote.
Well there ya go, adding an abstain option would be an area to improve on existing RL systems 
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Posted - 2008.05.21 17:46:00 -
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Originally by: Bunyip
...This borders on cruelty to us who have worked so hard for the past couple of months to achieve the turnout we did...
Just picked on the line and had to laugh .. that's New Eden for you!
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