Emperor Rick - Victory and Defeat - Arizona
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by Emperor Rick
At about 7-8PM Pacific Time Zone (the last time i checked the votes), I was behind by 5 votes.
I had been down by 5 throughout the entire day. I literally had given up hope of winning congress.. I turned off the computer and went out with a few friends to see the movie 9 in the IRL world. I expected defeat and planned to write a congratulations paper by tomorrow morning at the earliest.
When I got home by 1AM, i felt good, so i decided to turn on the computer to see by what margin my defeat was.
You have won the Congress elections and you have become a congress member. An amount of 5 Gold was added to your account as a reward for your achievement.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought perhaps the CvP had amassed a last second attempt to gain a few senators out of the clutches of defeat. I was going to thank my supporters and jfbranson for suspending his campaign to endorse me. I was going to thank my running mates Rheinlander von Phalz for being such a tough opponent. 12monkeys and FDR for being civil and respectable candidates. Then I saw the votes...
I had lost the election by 4 votes. Yet here I am in congress.
After some research... everyone who ran for congress won....
EVERYONE
Soon, my excitement fell into disappointment. Yeah I'm grateful to be in... but... This was not the way I wanted to get in. This feels cheap... This should be Rheinlander's moment of glory.
I would like to see everyone who did not win legitimately resign (thats not going to happen)
Hopefully admin will step in and correct this massive error. As I can only imagine how 167 congressmen are going to do in the government...
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Start that motion in congress?
There is nothing we can do due to game mechanics. We can't force members to quit. And if Admin acts it's because they chose to act.
As one of those who wound up with a "glitch seat", I found myself in the same predicament. And as tempting as it would have been to stick around and enjoy the screwup, I realized that I didn't belong there. I didn't earn the seat. And so it didn't take long for me to do the right thing and step down. 167 in Congress is a nightmare. I do have designs on Congress, but I want to get in the right way. I add my name to those who call for the resignations of those who are in these "glitch seats". Nothing good can come from this.
I'm considering stepping down.
2 small good things will come out of my time in congress though.
I granted citizenship to Apnea who has returned from North Korea, and a friend of mine Cristina Kirchner who's been in the states for a looong ass time but couldn't get citizenship from congress. I promised her If I won, id do it.
Ill probably grant citizenship to a few more US soldiers returning from North Korea before i bow out of congress.
Same here, wondering what the admins want us to do with the 5 gold?
Not sure if I am allowed to spend it or not!
I have to say something, I got in congress yet I can't vote and not to mention that I lost all of my gold! There is one massive bug in the system and it not cool. Hopefully the erepublik team can fix it soon.
From the look of things, it appears to have been corrected, as one member I looked at doesn't show having won, since he did lose.
Another point: if 167 members of congress sounds like a nightmare to you, what would you term the 535 (real) members of congress?
yeah it looks like they removed the senators (and the trophy)
but the gold remains. Also IRL mechanics (lol) works, so 535 isint that bad... (rethinks what I just said) fuuuuuuuuuck nevermind lol