08-27-2014, 08:54 AM
Great points, PauHana.
I share your disgust that they were quick to push the advantage but then it didn't work out for them so they try to call foul.
Hanabusa also chased a perceived opportunity to get some votes she wouldn't have gotten without Iselle messing things up. I mean, if she had originally been favored to win Puna, then I could see her point in asking for fair process, but she was never favored. Instead she tried to win in the follow up election by courting new votes -- through positioning herself as the champion of the area's voting rights.
I still think that all the voters got shafted by the poor decision.
People unable to vote got shafted.
People who voted as intended with no knowledge of the outcome got shafted when other voters got to decide the race after the tally was published.
No one vote should count more than another in our system. There should not be firm knowledge that your vote is part of a small pool that could cause an upset. There should not be talk of negotiating special favors for the area in return for switching after the tallies are released.
That's why I'm against a revote for all of Puna. First, Puna does not comprise all the voters affected seriously by the storm. Second, that only creates a somewhat larger pool of voters who can form a coalition to negotiate their votes for favors.
Everyone should revote the races that were affected, or no one. Throw out all the prior votes on those races and start over, or let it be. JMHO.
I share your disgust that they were quick to push the advantage but then it didn't work out for them so they try to call foul.
Hanabusa also chased a perceived opportunity to get some votes she wouldn't have gotten without Iselle messing things up. I mean, if she had originally been favored to win Puna, then I could see her point in asking for fair process, but she was never favored. Instead she tried to win in the follow up election by courting new votes -- through positioning herself as the champion of the area's voting rights.
I still think that all the voters got shafted by the poor decision.
People unable to vote got shafted.
People who voted as intended with no knowledge of the outcome got shafted when other voters got to decide the race after the tally was published.
No one vote should count more than another in our system. There should not be firm knowledge that your vote is part of a small pool that could cause an upset. There should not be talk of negotiating special favors for the area in return for switching after the tallies are released.
That's why I'm against a revote for all of Puna. First, Puna does not comprise all the voters affected seriously by the storm. Second, that only creates a somewhat larger pool of voters who can form a coalition to negotiate their votes for favors.
Everyone should revote the races that were affected, or no one. Throw out all the prior votes on those races and start over, or let it be. JMHO.