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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2629463" data-attributes="member: 7240">As far as I know, the only restriction on campaigning is that it not interrupt threads on other topics during the voting period to talk about the vote. But as a candidate, you may still post to any threads and be witty, charming and knowledgeable. Furthermore, you can camapign in any way you want outside of ENWorld; for instance, you might go through your past correspondence with members of ENWorld and send them notes reminding them to vote for you and recommending a voting strategy (ie. how many votes to cast, etc.). More importantly still, you can encourage people to join ENWorld before the nomination period so that they can vote in the election. I think the community is well-served by this as it addresses the problem of such a large portion of ENWorlders being lurkers. Potential candidates are given a strong incentive not only to get their friends and associates to join but to post as well.Unless I'm very much mistaken, I haven't broken any rules by encouraging all the members of my Monday night gaming group to join ENWorld because I might run for a judge spot this year.But you are not proposing to limit the ability to vote for candidates getting 8% of the vote (I think disenfranchising 1 in 12 people is pretty serious anyway!); you are prposing to limit the ability to vote for candidates getting 40% or more of the vote. In other words, you are proposing to deny almost half or more of the people bothering to vote the opportunity to vote for one or more of the people they would like to. Also I find it really twisted that you are suggesting people aren't making use of their democratic opportunities because most won't allocate votes to less attractive candidates. By your reasoning, people who voted for Nader somehow made better "use" of the opportunities afforded them by the voting system than those who voted for Bush. Everybody who participates in an election makes equal use of their vote.</blockquote>

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