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#### Ballots & Voting

We just opened the first ballot ("Which Two Animals Should Get Added to Glitch Next?") So, subscribers: you can finally spend one of those votes that have been storing up (or two of them … or thirty).
We anticipate holding these kind of referendums about once a month, but that's subject to change as we see what happens.

Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink

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- Chunk like Ice Cream!
  Posted 9 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- Alpaca just gained about 50 votes to pull ahead!
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- At least it beats fox.
  Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- 20 minutes!
  Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Sloth in 2nd!
  Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Noooo, save the foxes and the alpacas!!!!!
  Posted 9 months ago by Lila Clemenceau | Permalink
- I cannot spare any more votes for my preference, But am equally excited by all three potential critters.
  Posted 9 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- My voting strategy: Vote early with your heart (sheep) and then vote with your head near the end. Go alpacas!!
  Posted 9 months ago by MaryLiLamb | Permalink
- C'mon Sloth!
  Posted 9 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- Current Standings [2:00pm PST March 9 2012] 10 Minutes Left
  Alpaca 100%
  Fox 99.5%
  Sloth 99.0% [–1.0%]
  Monkey 67.5% [–2.0%]
  Sheep 50.5% [–1.5%]
  Kangaroo 43.5% [–1.5%]
  Rabbit 42.0% [–1.0%]
  Moose 40.5% [–1.5%]
  Goat 34.0% [–1.0%]
  Mole 18.0% [–0.5%]
  Toad 17.5% [–1.0%]
  Rat 14.0%
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- COME ON PEOPLE! GO ALPACAS AND GO FOXES!
  Posted 9 months ago by Lila Clemenceau | Permalink
- I wonder how soon the new animals will be implemented into the game?
  Posted 9 months ago by SugarBear | Permalink
- Sloth!
  Posted 9 months ago by Electric Wizard | Permalink
- Secret ballot and all that. All I'm sayin is this.
  Posted 9 months ago by Splendora | Permalink
- Current Standings [2:05pm PST March 9 2012] 5 Minutes Left
  Alpaca 100%
  Fox 100% [+0.5%]
  Sloth 100% [+1.0%]
  Monkey 67.5% [–2.0%]
  Sheep 50.5% [–1.5%]
  Kangaroo 43.5% [–1.5%]
  Rabbit 42.0% [–1.0%]
  Moose 40.5% [–1.5%]
  Goat 34.0% [–1.0%]
  Mole 18.0% [–0.5%]
  Toad 17.5% [–1.0%]
  Rat 14.0%
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- It's so close, TomC, that by the time you post it, it's wrong.
  :P
  Posted 9 months ago by Squiggle-Squee | Permalink
- lol yeah xD
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- Sloooooooth! I just spent the rest of my votes on sloth!
  Posted 9 months ago by KP Doody | Permalink
- Results are in! Sloth and Fox.
  Posted 9 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- Sigh. No alpacas. I should have saved my votes. It didn't make a difference.
  Posted 9 months ago by Squiggle-Squee | Permalink
- I am pleased:)))
  Posted 9 months ago by Electric Wizard | Permalink
- Wow so it turns out 0.5% or 1 pixel was approximately 10 votes difference!
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- Didn't make a difference? Au contraire! that was an exceedingly tight race to the very end.
  Posted 9 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- No alpacas, oh no! >.<' :(
  Posted 9 months ago by Lila Clemenceau | Permalink
- Sloth wins. Fox a close second.
  • Alpaca 2090
  • Fox 2107
  • Goat 683
  • Kangaroo 880
  • Mole 358
  • Monkey 1366
  • Moose 815
  • Rabbit 845
  • Rat 275
  • Sheep 1021
  • Toad 354
  • Sloth 2156
  Posted 9 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- Fox was second.
  Posted 9 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Total Votes Cast: 12950
  Final Standings
  Sloth 2156 16.65%
  Fox 2107 16.27%
  Alpaca 2090 16.14%
  Monkey 1366 10.55%
  Sheep 1021 7.88%
  Kangaroo 880 6.80%
  Rabbit 845 6.53%
  Moose 815 6.29%
  Goat 683 5.27%
  Mole 358 2.76%
  Toad 354 2.73%
  Rat 275 2.12%
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- How disappointing. As has been mentioned before, I wish we had the opportunity to reassign our votes, or at least see the numbers instead of a graph.
  Posted 9 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Do we start the outcry for a recount now? =P
  Posted 9 months ago by Aoi | Permalink
- LOL - maybe future ballots should be Single Transferable Vote :-)
  Posted 9 months ago by Snazzlefrazz | Permalink
- Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your new leader.
  Could have been much worse.
  Posted 9 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- Well, look at the bright side ~at least a sloth will seem to hold still, when being nibbled and squeezed! ;D
  Posted 9 months ago by ~Scilly~ | Permalink
- Some ideas to consider:
  If the ballot is flawed, return all votes and post a corrected ballot. Don't "fix" it after people have already spent their votes.
  Seriously consider (again) not displaying results until the voting has ended.
  If you are going to display the results before the voting ends, let people change their votes at any time until the voting has ended. This is especially important if you don't follow the procedure of returning votes before you post a corrected ballot.
  Posted 9 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- I second the ideas WindBorn has put forward above.
  Even when it's all in good fun, when it comes to voting, there's much to be said for following best practices.
  Posted 9 months ago by Splendora | Permalink
- But wasn't the 'correction' in the ballot that the sloths were not included on the list at first? And then they went on to win.
  Posted 9 months ago by Rannel | Permalink
- I don't think the votes should be transferable in any way, but perhaps the visibility of the results should be reconsidered, yes.
  Posted 9 months ago by Carl Projectorinski | Permalink
- yeah, the mistake has been corrected by beautiful citizens of glitch!
  Posted 9 months ago by Electric Wizard | Permalink
- Even though I enjoy seeing it, and can see in the future how I could use it to my advantage to pick and choose where my votes will be the most useful, I do not think we should be able to see the results before the voting is completely over with. When I first cast my votes, I didn't know I would be able to see the results. After seeing them, I would have cast my votes differently so as not to waste them on losers (which is not fair for the underdogs, and guarantees that they will lose). It introduces a pretty strong bias.
  Posted 9 months ago by Shepherdmoon | Permalink
- A particularly strong bias if you have a number of votes, and you vote once so that you can see the results and then vote some more later to influence the outcome. Also, I got really sick of the campaigning. It got people's emotions a little too riled up, I think.
  If no one had any idea of what the results were, there might still be a lot of campaigning, but it would be a little less strident I think, and considerably less bound up in tangible numbers. A fully blind system would emphasize that this is an election, not a race.
  Posted 9 months ago by Carl Projectorinski | Permalink
- Thanks for all the input. We'll definitely think about whether the results should be visible in advance (I can see both sides on that). It makes a difference what kind of ballot it is (e.g., if it is "A or B?" instead of "most popular 2 out of 12").
  I'm also intrigued by Windborn's idea of letting people change votes until the end … that could be really interesting.
  Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- I think this actually went pretty well for a first run. Animals were a good choice for it, despite some of the hurt feelings.
  Posted 9 months ago by Carl Projectorinski | Permalink
- Stoot - this was fun, and fun is good.
  Posted 9 months ago by Sue Chef | Permalink
- I actually thought the campaigning was great fun because it was so silly to ascribe character traits to imaginary animals. I am sorry sloth was added late - it would have changed my votes. But one of my two favorites made it in and that is good.
  Posted 9 months ago by Kookaburra | Permalink
- Aw, rats!
  I cast one vote for alpaca (only because I like the name alpaca), one vote for sloth (because they have the cutest faces and the creepiest rest-of-bodies), and one vote for rat (because rats deserve love too!)!
  I have to admit, I'm sort of sad that the rat didn't pull at least into the center of the pack. They're hella smart and may have given us nuclear power or something. That said, I would have been pleased with the results no matter what they were. :) Unless kangaroos won. I don't trust 'em. Shifty eyes and they can't back up.
  Posted 9 months ago by Quirk | Permalink
- Well.. alpacas are almost as cool as goats, so.. that's fine. :>
  I'm glad that the two that won were 2 I voted for. :)
  I agree it was great fun watching this unfold! :D
  Posted 9 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ | Permalink
- i'm thankful and admire our ecossistem, including subtleties, but i had (not really had, had, but had) to cast my vote. i have no idea how our Giants will create the winners, but watching at all this videos, yeah, many ideas!
  campaigns are fine, but spent more of my time watching funny videos and then theres a cute one on the video list and then my glitch ends up in hell, cause i got distracted more often... the videos are great, thank you very much for sharing them :)
  and my preference was casted on sloths (1 vote). and i'm curious about why are we able to cast more than one vote in each. also saw the results and because there wasn't a koala, maybe, i delayed my second cast. why would i cast a second time!? oh yes, the button said "cast your voteS", if i well remember :)
  so then i casted my second preference on alpacas (1 vote). but then, when the ballot was expiring and alpacas were losing for foxes (congrats:)) i afirmativelly casted alpacas again (1 vote). so i spent one vote in my first preference and the second preference, that i could or not cast for, got me two votes.
  should i had spent all my votes for the alpacas to win? i could, but i didn't (sorry)... but i was watching those cute videos and wasn't paying attention to the results page and i was more for the single vote. fells weired... and if we are going to have more ballots, i thought (before i casted any vote) maybe i should save them and take this first experience as it is: the first:)
  foxes will also be funny and wild and awesome!:)
  Posted 9 months ago by mira gaia maia | Permalink
- " I'm also intrigued by Windborn's idea of letting people change votes until the end … that could be really interesting." - stoot barfield.
  hee hee hee hee hee. i see more fun on the horizon. thank you stoot barfield. in the immortal words of Iηᾔḯε™, i lobe you best.
  Posted 9 months ago by glitch4ever | Permalink
- I'm glad I could see the results before the end because as it was I didn't have to waste my vote as I knew that it wouldn't have made a difference.
  Posted 9 months ago by Leithwyn | Permalink
- I still also REALLY want simple campaign signs.
  Posted 9 months ago by Lord Bacon-o | Permalink
- I would have loved to have changed my votes around, a lot.
  Posted 9 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink

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