Winter 2008 Progressive Primary - Official Thread

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I nominate San Francisco.

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Adak, Alaska - 11
Austin, Texas - 7
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania  - 5
Seattle, Washington - 3
Culebra, Puerto Rico - 6
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 2
Richmond, Virginia - 8
Annapolis, Maryland - 4
Nome, Alaska - 10
Belle Fourche, South Dakota - 9
San Francisco, California - 1

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How are delegates chosen?

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How are delegates chosen?

Do you mean how they are calculated/elected? or how they are picked?

Picked. Can I be a delegate, for instance?

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How are delegates chosen?

Do you mean how they are calculated/elected? or how they are picked?

Picked. Can I be a delegate, for instance?

Yes you can. They're not really picked per se. You just declare yourself a delegate and pledge your support behind a candidate as long as you live in a region where that candidate won delegates. A candidate also reserves the right to refuse you as a delegate.

How are delegates chosen?

Do you mean how they are calculated/elected? or how they are picked?

Picked. Can I be a delegate, for instance?

After it's clear who has how many delegates from which region, the candidates ask ordinary voters to pleas be their delegates. That's how we did it last time around, anyways.

EDIT: Earl's also put it nicely.

Awesome. Thanks.

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Yeah, after the first round, you can vote for whoever you want, but in the first round you must pledge yourself behind a specific candidate. So, the first round is just to see who the delegates are; the results are going to be similar to the actual delegate totals, except candidates may not find enough delegates in time.

What happens in that case?

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Yeah, after the first round, you can vote for whoever you want, but in the first round you must pledge yourself behind a specific candidate. So, the first round is just to see who the delegates are; the results are going to be similar to the actual delegate totals, except candidates may not find enough delegates in time.

What happens in that case?

They can be filled in during the subsequent rounds provided they vote for that delegate.

Interesting. Thanks.

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Right now, the results are as follows:

1. San Francisco
2. Belle Fourche
T3. Austin
T3. Seattle
T5. Everyone else.

I suggest we end voting right now, since this took me a long time to do (manually) and I don't want to have to do it again.

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If it's allowed I would like to alter my ballot to the following, San Francisco in first.

[6] Adak, Alaska
[9] Austin, Texas
[8] Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
[7] Seattle, Washington
[3] Culebra, Puerto Rico
[10] Milwaukee, Wisconsin
[4] Richmond, Virginia
[5] Annapolis, Maryland
[2] Nome, Alaska
[11] Belle Fourche, South Dakota
[1] San Francisco, California

Makes no difference in the final tally.

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Right now, the results are as follows:

1. San Francisco
2. Belle Fourche
T3. Austin
T3. Seattle
T5. Everyone else.

I suggest we end voting right now, since this took me a long time to do (manually) and I don't want to have to do it again.

Except that I am going to do the calculations

Well, SF is winning.

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Okay, I'm closing the booth now. San Francisco has been chosen, edging out Belle Fourche in the final round.

First round
San Francisco    4
Belle Fourche   3
Seattle      3
Austin      2
Milwaukee   1
Culebra   1
Annapolis   1
Harrisburg   1
Adak      1
Richmond   1

Second round
Belle Fourche   8
San Francisco   4
Seattle      3
Austin      3

Third round
San Francisco   10
Belle Fourche   8

Hooray!

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Just a note to voters, uncommitted is not an option.

Why not? We can have delegates free to vote for anyone in the first round.

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Sensei has one delegate from the Southeast, not none. That needs to be fixed.

Cookies and Milk, who has not been on recently, has told me that he wishes to be a delegate for Sensei, as do I.

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Sensei has one delegate from the Southeast, not none. That needs to be fixed.

Cookies and Milk, who has not been on recently, has told me that he wishes to be a delegate for Sensei, as do I.

Sensei has 0 delegates from the Southeast. He failed to reach the threshold of two voters.

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong column.

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Thank God the Convention hasn't started all ready! Otherwise I would have missed out on voting on the first ballot.

BTW: I'm on of Senator Sensei's delegates.

It has started already; the voting is currently going on.

Don't worry Sensei supporters, I've casted my ballot for the next President of Atlasia Sensei!

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Cast, not casted.
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Thank God the Convention hasn't started all ready! Otherwise I would have missed out on voting on the first ballot.

BTW: I'm on of Senator Sensei's delegates.

It has started already; the voting is currently going on.

Don't worry Sensei supporters, I've casted my ballot for the next President of Atlasia Sensei!

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Cast, not casted.
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You are like my good friend Varun. A nice kid, but he is like you. A Grammar Nazi.

Fixed.

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Frankly I think it would be appropriate to start a new, separate primary for actual progressives which would exclude many of the inactive Red Avatars and various randoms bused in by over-eager newbies who don't have much regard for good election manners.

I wonder who this is targeted at.

Well, have fun with your endeavor.

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I wonder who this is targeted at.

Well, have fun with your endeavor.

Who is 'Cookies and Milk'?  A friend from school?

Friend, but not from school. Who is Friz?

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Who is Friz?

A former administrator of a classic cartoons advocacy website.

Why was he appointed?

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Yay! Another argument between Senator Porce and the soon-to-be Vice Chair of the PLP. This must be the second time this week.

This is almost as fun as Ben vs. gporter.

Then how can we know your claim has any base?

I don't expect the sort of people I'm talking about to agree with me in the first place.

But as far as I'm concerned this rush of uninformed Red Avatars is the worst thing to happen to Atlasia in a long time.

How do you become "informed"?

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Or are you just making claims because you don't like the result?

I never expected to like the result.  There is no doubt that Sensei would have won this primary legitimately.  Which makes me all the more puzzled as to why it had to be so bungled up in the first place.

What would you have done?

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Then how can we know your claim has any base?

I don't expect the sort of people I'm talking about to agree with me in the first place.

But as far as I'm concerned this rush of uninformed Red Avatars is the worst thing to happen to Atlasia in a long time.

How do you become "informed"?

Still waiting...