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Greetings, Legion World citizens. It is once again time to elect your powerless, figurehead sham of a leader for the Legion of Message Board Posters. This officer's hope is that you at least do no worse in your choice than you have in the past.
Anyone who posts on Legion World can be considered a member of the LMB, so all posters are eligible.
What does the LMB leader do? *sigh* Not very much. The position is purely honorary. If there are any roleplays, your role would be prominent, I suppose. If there are fanfics over in Bits, you may be identified as leader should they be set during that time frame. And I'm quite certain your service will be noted in LMB historical documents. The only thing you will definitely be doing is running the subsequent election that determines your successor.
Please, only participate for the fun of it. This is how we of Legion World honor the old tradition of LSH leaders being elected by the fans. It's not intended as a poularity contest or to upset the feeling of community we have here. This is your chance to roast your peers with wicked abandon and parody what, in the real world, is little more than an excuse for a media frenzy.
The official rules:
1. The initial campaign season will last for one week. After that, polls will open for one week, allowing the members of Legion World to vote for their choice for leader.
2. Only one ID per poster is allowed to run/vote.
3. To declare yourself a candidate for LMB leader, simply announce your candidacy on the Election Discussion Thread, within the next week. The Election Discussion Thread shall be used for all general comments or questions regarding the election both by candidates and non-candidates.
4. Each candidate is permitted to start one official campaign thread in the MMB. One may also campaign in various “establishment” threads (Café Cramer, The Security Office, etc.) if the owner of that thread permits it. Candidates may also use the shoutbox and their signature to promote their campaign, within the spirit of the general guidelines for posting on Legion World.
5. Voters shall be permitted to use The Official LMB Leader Election Debate Thread to ask potential candidates their opinion on important Legion World issues, such as the rights of Lindbergh baby clones and whom has jurisdiction over Alan Moore's beard.
6. This thread shall be reserved for official announcements regarding the election. For example, procedures for actually voting will be announced closer to the time that the polls open.
7. Have fun with this. The point is to be goofy and silly and make absurd campaign promises and preposterous allegations against your opponents. It really doesn’t matter who wins. Again, this is not a popularity contest of any sort. Nor is this supposed to turn into something that will cause the moderators or owners of this site any additional stress or work. It’s just for fun.
Good luck to all participants in advance as we open this exercise in depravity.
--The Election Tyrant, Esq.
[ March 04, 2010, 09:56 PM: Message edited by: The Election Tyrant ]
Registered: Jul 2003
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And, yes, it behooves one of the moderators to headline this and the two related official election threads for the convenience of our posters. We wouldn't want such a prestigious and time-honored travesty tradition to be lost in a sea of inane threads, would we?
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This thread and the Discussion Thread will be headlined for the duration of the election.
The debate thread, however, must fight for its survival on the MMB as candidates try to stay relevant!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Dev... you should never... never... ask a fellow LMBPer why a given thread is "stickied".
Some questions are better left unanswered.
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As of this moment, we have three candidates for LMB Leader:
Ram Boy Dev-Em dedman
Nominations will close at midnight EST on Thursday. That gives any potential candidates just over 48 hours to declare their intentions.
Between now and midnight Monday all candidates must find a running mate to add to their ticket, or they will be put on the ticket by themselves. Running mates MUST give their consent to being on the ticket. The voting process will begin midnight Monday and last for one week.
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Nominations are now closed. The candidates for the office of LMB Leader remain:
Ram Boy Dev-Em dedman
Candidates have between now and midnight EST Monday evening to announce a running mate with said running mate posting his/her acceptance on the Election Discussion thread for it to be considered official.
Alternately, a PM to this account (The Election Tyrant, duh!) from both parties on the ticket is also acceptable should they wish to surprise their opponents and prevent their counter-strategizing based on the perceived strengths such a running mate might bring to the ticket.
In either case, notification must occur before midnight EST Monday evening. At that point the tickets will be finalized and made public as voting officially begins.
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Bloody Liberty! Running mates just made this thing even more interesting!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Update on the tickets for the upcoming election:
dedman with Stealth as his Deputy candidate
Dev-Em with Sarcasm Kid
So far no running mate for Ram Boy has been announced on the Election Discussion thread nor received by this body via PM. There are less than 48 hours 'til voting begins!
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Never mind campaigning, I think the Election Tyrant is flirting with me!
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cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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I'm just glad to see that no matter who wins, we'll have another Deputy with a strong commitment to the arts!
[gets a little teared up] 'Scuse me. Just gonna' go fix everyone a nice cup of tea. BRB.
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