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[essbee80]

OK so for the record I voted RM first, Legomymalfoy second and jay maynard 3rd. And There is a certain candidate who is really fecking me off right now. Talk about over campaigning jeeeees! Not to mention I find one of their posters incredibly racist. But hey ho.

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[rhonan]

None of us see it as racist, as the image was chosen solely because of her compelling eyes and the beauty captured in the photograph. It may be exploitive of that image, but there is nothing in that "poster" that is derogatory toward her or the Afghan people. It is no different than the poster someone made by taking a photo of jameth and brad at the open house they recently had at LJ's headquarters and adding similar text. Also, as I said before, that is not an image that jameth had anything to do with creating or posting.

If you read the rules of the election, it is not one person one vote, it is one vote per username per e-mail address. While I know some people in jameth's posse have more then one account, he is far from the worst offender on that issue. legomymalfoy's supporters have been documented discussing the massive numbers of sock-puppets they were voting with. We have a screen-shot of one of his supporters posting about how they had cast 200 votes for him. It is a big part of why he so quickly moved from second place to his large lead.

The very active campaign of support was a response to a number of people who had started a very active campaign to smear jameth as nothing but a joke, because he used his popularity to secure his nomination. rm's favorite minion insomnia was one of the first. He created ljunited to support her, and the first thing he did was post about what a joke he thought jameth was. He then deleted the comments of anyone who tried to challenge that, and then banned the commenters. So yeah, we have had to work a bit. Besides, we're having fun with it. As for best candidate, I worked with jameth and know his qualifications well.

[essbee80]

Then we can agree to disagree :)