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Re: Still missing ballots from 5 people
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lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space
Date: 
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:05:17 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Larry Pieniazek writes:
2. Suppose J. Fred Muggs entered and ends up not voting. Does everyone who
voted for one of Mr. Muggs's entries have to revote?

No, the title would just go to the one with the next-highest number of vote-
points in that category.


If so, we could get a
domino, in that if one of THEM doesn't vote the second time, and gets DQed,
we could have to have a THIRD round of votes and so on...

Ya, too messy.


(remember, the rules say you have to spend all your votes or your entries
are DQed... a vote for a DQed entry could be argued to be a non spent vote,
and thus you haven't met your obligation to spend them all, or it could be
argued that you met your duty in voting even if the entry was DQed through
no fault of your own...)

That's what I had in mind, yes.


I prefer the second option. Maybe the rules take care of this problem and I
missed it, though...

It's not spelled out, unfortunately.

--Todd



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(...) I sent an email to Todd but on reflection I think that the questions I asked ought to be publicly asked. 1. My MO as "auditor" was going to be to stash the ballots in a safe place and not do anything more unless and until someone raises a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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