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Leinad
Junior Chimp
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E: -7.03, S: -7.91

« on: October 28, 2016, 07:16:46 PM »

From what I understand, this is what happened: Jimmie voted for Yankee in the original election, Labor contacted him and persuaded him to vote for Blair, and this was brought up in IRC, where Jimmie changed his mind after hearing the arguments for voting Yankee. Ted apparently didn't even know Jimmie had voted until the end of the conversation.

They shouldn't have talked to someone about their vote--I've told and will tell them as much in private--but the three of them are ultimately inexperienced players, and they made a mistake. They learned from it. To say it's "bullying" or a "felony" is nothing but a partisan witch-hunt, unless I'm being told a drastically inaccurate version of events.

Also, I'll add that I was not in at the time and, more importantly, Yankee (the actual candidate here) was not in at the time, either--as of me typing this post, he actually hasn't been online since well before Jimmie's vote.

And why on earth is Adam bringing up Tmth, as if that's any scandal at all? Yeah, he came into IRC one night and Facebook messaged a couple people he knows from Atlas. That's been the extent of his involvement in the game since he left.
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Leinad
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 5,049
United States


Political Matrix
E: -7.03, S: -7.91

« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2016, 01:26:38 PM »

Ben is simply following the theme of this thread: creating controversy from nothing.

Anyway, I think this thread has gotten out of hand. Let's take a step back here:

Griffin and Truman are accusing people of committing a felony. Their entire basis for this harsh accusation is from Jimmie's heat-of-the-moment reaction on #AtlasForum. Does he still say that he was intimidated?

I do not think anyone purposefully tried to intimidate me to change my vote.

Doesn't look like it!

I know you two are so eager to kick active Federalists out of the game, but accusing people of voter intimidation based on an incomplete narrative that has been basically disproven is nothing short of partisan hackery. And yes, dfw and Santander made a mistake, and me and Yankee have talked to them about this--they'll be more careful when it comes to talking to people about their votes (i.e. don't do it). And Ted said he didn't even know Jimmie had voted until right before he left--he was just checking in from the Chick-Fil-A parking lot. It seems like if he did anything minorly wrong it was just barely, and you guys want to kick him out of the game?

If Labor wants to continue with this debunked narrative that 3 Federalists commited voter intimidation, they're being nothing more than partisan hacks.
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