The Virtual Prez of h2g2
Created | Updated Jun 21, 2003
The Polling Booth will be opening in less than a week, so the time is right to set down a few of the ground rules for voting.
NO multiple voting is allowed! Researchers found attempting to rig the election by this means will have all their votes disallowed!
We realise that there is no easy way to stop this sort of thing but, bearing in mind this is a fun campaign and there is no real benefit from winning (apart from the required articles for the Post and the kudos!), we would hope that you will all abide by this rule and not try to be creative!It has also been brought to my attention that quite a few of you have multiple personalitites. To be entirely fair to the majority of researchers who only have one, it has been decided that you may vote with only your main character.
Along these same lines, may I quote from a recent forum:
'Due to circumstances outside my control, I recently was obliged to register my pets Mindspring and Ferrari in order to prevent their being hijacked. Upon becoming the owner of two new identities, I suddenly realised what potential there was for voting abuse.
I would not for a moment accuse other candidates of stooping to such underhanded tactics in order to stuff the ballot boxes, but I am concerned that over-enthusiastic supporters of any camp may register new identities purely in order to inflate the results for their selected candidate. Needless to say, Mindspring and Ferrari will not be voting'
In a nutshell, please do NOT be tempted to create new researchers purely for the intent of creating more votes. The ACES are hard-pressed enough keeping up with *newbies*, without encountering strange creations whose only role is to vote and then not post again.
Something tells me that the Towers would not be overly impressed by this action either!All votes MUST quote your user name and number. Failure to do so will be counted as a void vote or a spoiled paper.
The votes are being handled by an entirely independant source... but any queries should be addressed to me please.
Further information and the actual voting link may be found at The Polling Booth
For an update on the Opinion Poll you will need to visit HERE
