Something fishy about the RFC elections
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by Desertfalcon
This morning I logged on to see how the elections were going and I saw that Jefferson Steelflex had taken an early lead and that me and TGM were in a tie for second. I was a bit displeased at the fact that I was so far down on the voting page but I brushed that aside and thought I was still in this. Now a few hours later I noticed something, when I looked at the page I saw that I had 6 votes and TGM had a slight lead of 9 but I could not find Jefferson Steelflex.
I then found him near the bottom of the page. The reason he was down here was because his rank had been altered and the only person that could do that would be TGM. I know for a fact that Jefferson Steelflex was winning in the elections and he was third on the election list a few hours ago so what is he doing way back here now?
[a url=http://www.erepublik.com/members_list-60-119.html]Party Member list[/a]
and the new voting page (scroll down)
[a url=http://www.erepublik.com/party_elections-119.html]Voting page[/a]
If these are to be fair elections then TGM must move Jefferson Steelflex back into his old position. I am going to give TGM the benefit of the doubt right now because I have known him for awhile and he does not seem like a person who would try to rig an election but he does need to make it so people seem more then just him on the ballot.
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I have asked jefferson about this but have yet to get a response however I doubt that he would ask to be dropped in the rankings so much.
They have been arguing throughout the day on various articles.
Maybe he just moved him down the list because he didn\'t think he warranted a high position in the party? It\'s possible that he had no idea that this would happen as a result.
It\'s certainly fishy and the order should be returned to how it was, but I think that TGM should state his case before people point the finger.
Lets not forget, Jefferson won California. That means he has major support. Not to mention he has registered lots of new party members. He is a formidable candidate.
It was obviously TGM. How else would Jefferson move from the top 5 to 150?
This is disappointing and while I won\'t go on a tirade against TGM (not that it would affect a low level party member like myself), I will say that it shows a serious lack of integrity.
What a bitch move, TGM. I actually pm\'d him early this morning to tell him to move DF up to page, so all 3 candidates would be in the top 3
Yeah, seriously. He should move both me and DF up the page. This is pathetic.
It really is, I messaged him, but he never got back.
Thanks DF for brining this to light, its very admirable of you.
If I do not win, I hope you do.
Re my PM to you.
I tried to move candidates UP like Emerick said. I had trouble, and Emerick can attest to it, because moving around members is hard as hell in eRep. I was already 10 minutes late and said \"F it\" and left so I wouldn\'t be late for school. (Mind you, 1 more tardy and bad things happen.. 😃)
This could have been much better handled privately.
And let me apologize if you think I\'ve seriously harmed your campaign. it was all in good faith to get you and DF to the top but went wrong due to time issues and eRep functionality issues (lord know they exist)
However, I don\'t think I\'ve ruined your campaign or anything near that, per se. It\'s not like you were off the page and if someone was going to vote for you, it\'s not like they wouldn\'t do the work and look down half the page to find you.
In all honesty, I have to agree with TGM in terms of if you really wanted to vote for that candidate you would have scroll down. Before I voted, I went to check out on the 3 candidates TGM, DF and Jefferson and how they were doing in the votes. I noticed Jefferson was at the bottom but it wasnt difficult to find him.
The only negative side is, if someone is voting just for the heck of voting and dont care about the Representative\'s Platform they\'ll probably end up voting for TGM because of:
1) He is current PP (in which case neither DF nor Jefferson can do much)
or
2) He has majority votes at first glance (in which Jefferson might have harnessed some add\'l votes)
This is the funniest thing i have ever heard, TGM was PP for several days and the top 3 candidates were known for days, he had ample time to fix the rankings to reflect the top 3 candidates. He is cutthroat and will do w/e it takes to win, don\'t let him fool you. And before he cries \"vendetta\" let me be clear these are my opinions based on p.m.s from TGM and issues from the past.
Libel again
i see you learned the difference between Libel and slander, now you just need to learn what Libel is and what an opinion is.
You need to learn an opinion, good sir.
Last word ftw.
I should be at the top... FAIL!
DF won, which I am satisfied with.
TGM got what was coming to him for messing with the rankings.
You got what was coming to you for being a bad candidate.
TGM, Jefferson, and DF were all good candidates, we didn\'t have any \"bad\" candidates.
The only bad candidate was CJ.
😛
j/k. The election is over and now we must focus on the issues at hand.