The importance of party support needs to be strengthened somehow. Given the natiure of early Atlasian votes such as those quoted by Nym90 below:
It's interesting that in the first election last February, these were all considered valid votes:
I vote for the GOP ticket!
I vote for the GOP ticket.
Is this how one votes? Just post? Obviously I vote GOP.
Perhaps we could add something to allow for a party-line ticket and instead of having being just a single P/VP slate, it would be a complete list of preferences. Of course people could still come up with individualized ballots, but it would give a discernable advantage to being an orgaized party, if it was simpler to vote a party list of preferences than an individual ballot.
