Close the election polls?

[Bootstoots]

The save has been bogged down at the UN for some time now, and it's still turn 133 (when it arrives, that is, which will still take several days). Last elections only lasted for 72 hours, it looks like these may last upwards of 2 or 3 weeks. Should we just close them now and make the results official?

 

[deshelbr]

I support closing them now if no one else minds circumventing the constitution on this one. I think all the elections are pretty much decided and we shouldn't expect a change in results if they were left open for two more weeks.

 

[Octavian X]

They were set to auto-close after 14 days, as I had thought they would be over before them. Allow them to stay open to allow for more people to vote.

 

[GenMarshall]

I also agree on closing the polls now. Since basicly we have milked out every single vote

 

[Hygro]

Cheetah and I will need a run off for court justice. it was 6 5 6. Really close.

 

[Bootstoots]

We wouldn't be circumventing our constitution for this; it only mandates that we have 45-turn terms. Plus, we have squeezed out just about every vote that will come across, and it would be nice to have the Justice runoff be over by the beginning of the term as well.

 

[Hygro]

Also next term will be 25 turns. Regardless if we have or have not made an amendment by that time, I'd like all leaders to step down and call for early elections.

 

[Donovan Zoi]

What will it take to get an amendment voted on? We apparently have all the time in the world til Term 4 starts; let's draft it up now.

I think that the only alteration we have to make is to replace 45 with 25.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Yes, we should end the polls and start any run-offs now. All the serious members will have voted now.

 

[GenMarshall]

Originally posted by Gingerbread Man
Yes, we should end the polls and start any run-offs now. All the serious members will have voted now.

Err GBM, have you recived my PM?

 

[Ankka]

Yes, all of the users here have voted already, so lets just post run- offs .

Or should I post a poll on the topic "should we close the election polls"?

 

[deshelbr]

I think you can move to run-offs now. There has been plenty of time for comment and I don't think anyone is trying to make the case that doing the run-offs now gives any candidate and unfair advantage.

 

[Ankka]

Yes, most of the polls are clearly won or lost by someone, and there have really been no new votes for ages now...