08-09-2003 16:51									#1
	Consular Elections: Choice 2 Suffering from ads?

And now, the second in the long-awaited (well, maybe not) Consular elections decision thread.

Previously decided

There are three Consul seats, currently held by notyoueither, MrWhereItsAt and BigFree. It has been decided in poll by 20 out of 30 voters (66.67%) that seats will be up for re-election one at a time.

This poll

Another issue about Consular elections to decide upon is the length of time between Consular elections. This poll presents three options.

Options
A: One month. Elections will take place after one month. Month one, there will be an election for the Consular seat that has had the longest time since being the subject of an election (in this case three months). Next month, regardless of the outcome, there will be an election for the Consular seat that has had the next longest time since being the subject of an election. As it stands, notyoueither is the longest serving Consul, so he would be up for reelection first. The following month MrWhereItsAt would be up for reelection etc. Thus each individual Consul will serve three months before their seat is up for reelection.

B: Two months. Elections will take place after two months. Month one, there will be an election for the Consular seat that has had the longest time since being the subject of an election (in this case six months). Two months later, regardless of the outcome, there will be an election for the Consular seat that has had the next longest time since being the subject of an election. As it stands, notyoueither is the longest serving Consul, so he would be up for reelection first. Two months later MrWhereItsAt would be up for reelection etc. Thus each individual Consul will serve six months before their seat is up for reelection.


C: Abstain

In any case, the issue of when to have the first elections has to be decided in another poll and does not depend on the outcome of this poll.

Abstain is included for those who have no preference. It will have no effect on the outcome.

This poll is set to last 7 days.

Most people should be familiar with the issues, but more information can be found below.

As previously discussed here:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...&threadid=91566

and here:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...&threadid=90270

Polled on here:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...&threadid=90182

and here:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...&threadid=89850

	08-09-2003 19:04									#2
	Increase Your PM Length

2 months between elections is way to long of a time frame. Granted, the current consuls have been in the current offices for same time, but then, we have also lost a lot of interest in this team, from various reasons. This will bring us a long way to bringing the interest level back up to a higher level.

E_T

	08-09-2003 23:18									#3
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Definitely just one month.

	09-09-2003 03:51									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Agreed. Definately one month. This game moves rather quickly and if it's 2 months, the game may be half-over before we even cycle through all of the Consuls.

	09-09-2003 04:58									#5
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Can't say I disagree with the above. Six months in office is a bejeezus of a long time.

	09-09-2003 06:39									#6
	Remove this text

Thank you for picking up the slack on this, Dubya.

	10-09-2003 18:11									#7
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Just keeping this on the top...

	10-09-2003 22:49									#8
	Tired of ads?

One month. And I presume the incumbent whose consul seat is up for election can be re-elected.

	11-09-2003 04:36									#9
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Yes, that is correct.

	11-09-2003 07:00									#10
	Got spare money?

Thanks. Then yes - the one month makes even more sense.