Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board LMB Leader Election Official Rules/Announcements: April 3012

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 And I'm quite certain your service will be noted in LMB historical documents.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 popularity 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 (By April 7th at 20:00 Central Daylight Time). 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, The Rookery, 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.

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

What?

You complicated.

I was hoping that Fat Cramer would seek the nomination.

Finally, I could "Blame Canada" and really mean it!

Either that, or Exnihil could run. Then I could sell my vote for an action figure.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, cle, but I find that my two favorite activities... bribery and graft... seem to work best when I just skulk around the borders of the process.

That being said... whoever does throw their hat in, let it be known that I'm never above accepting a cabinet position with all the perks and none of the responsibility.





Edit 04/02: I changed my mind.

Flip-flopper. How can we trust what you say when you can't even stay consistent on the basic issues like whether to run!

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
Adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

And this candidate, sir, is no little statesman. Well... not that little.

I wonder if Ram Boy is going to show up and endorse any of the current candidates.



Also, Ex, remember that I want my action figure to be patterned after that drawing that Sketch Lad did last year.