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Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
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Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:26:03 GMT
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Mark Chan wrote in message ...

<snipped intersting but complicated voting and registration system>
CONS:
1) Much, much (much) more work for Kevin Wilson - He might start looking on
the Florida chad counters with envy.

Too much :-) Seriously, I physically can't do that much.

I also prefer to have the contest voting as open as possible, I deliberately
and intentionally didn't limit it to only people who entered, or only LUGNET
people.

I also sympathise with everyone wanting the voting to be seen to be fair,
but I think this specific problem was a misunderstanding and not an
intentional cheat.

Kevin
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  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
(...) That's true. We don't want you to get permanently cross-eyed like that county official in the infamous Florida chad counting picture :-) (...) This also has the added benefit of exposing more "outsiders" to the Lego community (always a good (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)

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  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
(...) A procedural suggestion (and a suggestion only) to prevent another 2000 Florida. Since the voting rules were not stated early on, and it's only day one of a 10 day voting period, I think it would be "OK" to start over again on Monday, and to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)

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