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Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
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Date: 
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:30:40 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes:
> 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.

That's true. We don't want you to get permanently cross-eyed like that
county official in the infamous Florida chad counting picture :-)

> 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.

This also has the added benefit of exposing more "outsiders" to the Lego
community (always a good thing)

> 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.

Agreed. You handled this situation very well. Hopefully, some of the other
voting mechanisms that have been discussed will be around for the next
contest. I like Amy's ideas a lot.

Mark Chan



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  Re: Town Building Contest: Voting now open - Shades of Florida?
 
Mark Chan wrote in message ... <snipped intersting but complicated voting and registration system> (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)

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