The mods of fandom_votes would like to extend our congratulations to legomymalfoy for her new position on the Livejournal Advisory Board. Full results can be viewed here. Also congratulations to rm and vichan for a wonderful showing.

I'd most especially like to thank vichan and qfemale* for taking the time to come and answer questions about their platforms here. It's been a pleasure ( Read more... )

Just a quick follow-up:

legomymalfoy has acknowledged she was the candidate receiving threats for her candidacy in an election on LiveJournal.

I have to admit - a lot happened over the weekend that made me think on this further, so I'm going to apologize and say that I don't believe that the first idea I had for this community is going to cut it any longer. The original plan was to put up a run-off poll between our top two candidates, but I've decided against that. I think it's highly ( Read more... )

This is a cut and paste of all the candidates platforms linked from here.

If any candidates wish to have the text of their platforms removed from this entry, please email seperis at livejournal and I'll remove the text and keep the link only.

Discussion Rules1.) Comments must be balanced; when making a post with negative comments on one candidate ( Read more... )

I've decided to set a goal for fandom_votes.



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Don't know who to vote for? Find candidate platforms, open discussion and fannish endorsements RIGHT HERE.

We heartily encourage conversation and discussion on that post so that you can figure out who you think is going to best articulate, defend and understand fannish interests. In other words? Know who you are voting for. Blind votes don't help ( Read more... )

ETA: Let's try this again.If you're not a member of fandom and you're not going to be voting for one of the ten people we are discussing, go somewhere else to discuss your candidate. I want this comments section on-topic. I have no desire to wade through anything extraneous in this community ( Read more... )