On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 7. Vogons SHOULD support the candidacies of other Vogons in elections >>> to choose the holders of offices. A Vogon who votes for a non-Vogon >>> in an election in which at least one other candidate is a Vogon SHALL >>> pay Union Dues of 50 ningis, by transferring such ningis, divided as >>> evenly as possible, to the Vogon candidates for which e did not vote. >>> If a player owes Union Dues at the beginning of the month, Prostetnic >>> Vogon Jeltz SHALL garnish eir wages, creating the ningis e would >>> receive instead in the possession of the Vogons to whom e owes Dues. >> >> And I don't like this bit. Otherwise I would join. > > Would an amount lower than 50 be more reasonable, or are you just > opposed to trying to influence votes altogether? My original thought > was to let the Vogons select a preferred candidate by majority vote > and then require all of them to vote for em, but that seemed a bit too > much.
My main objection is that it promotes establishment and discourages office-holder diversity. If Zefram nominates emself for every office, I don't want to have to pay 50 ningis per office to oppose it (assuming of course that eir opponents are not also vogons). -root
