The Atlasian Sentinel

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Good luck!

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gporter edited his vote after 20 minutes, rendering it invalid.

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I like regional governments.

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Hamilton might win by virtue of useless drones who will fade into irrelevancy until the next time they're needed.

Isn't that how the JCP wins elections?

No, our voters are active in other forum parts, unlike RPP drones.

Hashemite, that is a grat comparison than, sadly, most Atlasians won't catch.

     So? They are inactive in Atlasia, which has been a consistent issue explored by all real attempts at registration reform. Nevertheless, no good solution has ever emerged.

We haven't ever registered large numbers of mysterious newbies who spam their way to the required number of posts. Surely you can understand why some of us, and it's clearly not just those of us in the JCP, find it suspicious.

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Hamilton might win by virtue of useless drones who will fade into irrelevancy until the next time they're needed.

Isn't that how the JCP wins elections?

No, our voters are active in other forum parts, unlike RPP drones.

Hashemite, that is a grat comparison than, sadly, most Atlasians won't catch.

     So? They are inactive in Atlasia, which has been a consistent issue explored by all real attempts at registration reform. Nevertheless, no good solution has ever emerged.

We haven't ever registered large numbers of mysterious newbies who spam their way to the required number of posts. Surely you can understand why some of us, and it's clearly not just those of us in the JCP, find it suspicious.

     I'm also sure you can understand why I don't think much of your suspicions when you & your party members make it plainly clear that you don't care at all about activity in Atlasia. Of course, I'm more inclined to address any concerns of non-JCPers.

I don't believe I was criticizing the activity of RPP members...

I try to recruit as many established forumers as I can to the JCP & Atlasia. Some of them choose not to get terribly involved beyond voting. But even then, many of them do chime in every once in a while, like Alcon and Lunar. I even had BRTD and Boris both come to me telling me they opposed the JCP name change. How would those guys even be aware of that if they never read this forum? And really, when the RPP constantly floods the forum with spamming newbies to vote for them, I cannot help but feel it is necessary to ask all members of my party to vote to counter them and even the playing field.

But what I'm saying is that I think there is something fishy with the latest batch of RPP recruits. And clearly just about everybody who isn't in the RPP feels the same way. But at this point we can only speculate.

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^ Well, this forum in general tends to lean a bit to the left. When you look at these national elections, you see that when a more moderate person such as yourself ran you basically tied us... But DWTL and Duke lost not because they were members of the RPP, but because they were too conservative for your average Atlasian.

The fact that the left is so divided, into two parties, and arguably three (I consider a majority of the DA to be more leftist than rightist) would seemingly level the playing field for the RPP, somewhat.

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^ Well, this forum in general tends to lean a bit to the left. When you look at these national elections, you see that when a more moderate person such as yourself ran you basically tied us... But DWTL and Duke lost not because they were members of the RPP, but because they were too conservative for your average Atlasian.

The fact that the left is so divided, into two parties, and arguably three (I consider a majority of the DA to be more leftist than rightist) would seemingly level the playing field for the RPP, somewhat.

     I worked extremely hard in order to just get a tie. I literally PM'd half the JCP making the case for why they should vote for me, & as well as anyone outside of the RPP who I deemed even remotely likely to vote for me. I was sabotaged by an incredible run of bad luck, though, including something like five of my supporters getting their votes invalidated.

     Also, preferential voting means that splits in each wing don't mean too much. They only really matter when party bosses start micromanaging the vote, like when Purple State got elected at the expense of Lief.

Sabotage suggests something sinister---there was nothing sinister about three of your own voters invalidating their votes.

Your side turned the absentee voting booth into the general voting booth, and I felt like we lost a lot of votes because we did not intend to go into full campaign mode so early. But we had to to have a chance.

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Looks like four people in the JCP gave their first preference to candidates of other parties. Can the DA or RPP say that?

Yeah, some "Zombie-Drone" Party.

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As for the JCP guys talking about transparency, it's, well, a complete joke. They answer to bgwah just as much as we answered to DWTL...

Not really...