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Message: <blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 2628571" data-attributes="member: 1869">I'll throw in my two centsSince this is the only chance to talk about "politics" on Enworld I thought I should throw in my two cents.I'll give you my voting perspective.  I am in a gaming group with Quickbeam (Kevin) so he naturally recieved my vote.  He has met several Enworlders in the past and speaks highly of many of them.  He knows Croathian and TB and has said good things about both of them.  Along with their online popularity, generally well thought out posts, etc that would generally secure my vote.  A word of confidence from a friend can definitely sway me towards a candidate.Now here's why I didn't vote for either of them (nothing personel)In the current format with multiple votes and being able to see the poles I would conclude the following:1.  Withholding a vote is almost as good as voting for your favorite candidate.  I want Kevin to win.  I don't know very many other people other than by online activity, post count, board visibility, etc.  My next few votes would have likely gone to current leaders (Crothian, TB, Cthulu's Librarian, JoeG)  All of them are likely to win a coveted spot and could potentially knock out my prefered candidate, so why vote for those other four at all?2. If Kevin called me up and said, "Hey I need your vote."  My natural reaction by looking at the polls is to say that he has no chance so why bother.3. What about rigging the results?  You can see who's winning for crying out loud.  I'm not suggesting that any wrongdoing has occured but how easily could Ankh-Morpork Guard out do Diaglo (leading by 43 at time of posting) by simply having a few friends open varying accounts to sway voting.Imagine the turmoil you would have if you had one vote and couldn't see the polls.  Voter turnout in my opinion is low for the number of people on this board.  The average person I think is somewhat like me.  They have a few posts, read the boards regularly, but aren't on here all the time accumulating massive post counts.  This vote is really sort of a popularity contest.  One could argue those with higher post counts are more involved in the community, have time to put the work in, etc.  I would for the most part would agree with that.  As I said before Crothian, TB, Cthulu's Librarian, and JoeG are all people I would have voted for and who are more than qualified IMHO.  But what happens to me the average Enworlder when I have a single vote to dispearse amongst those four Enworld celebrities?  I think things may get more interesting.</blockquote>

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