houvest:

Alice in the rabbit whole. Curiouser and curiouser, Alliances, Realignments, accord concordiale. trappings of electoral malpractices and win at all cost mentality. Big Brother is watching.

houvest:

Good job PointB of rallying Ndigbo on NL. I split my votes. I voted for Andre for Eze Ndi Igbo on Nl but nominated Onlytruth as politics poster of the year on the other thread. Those are two able Igbo youngmen.Point B try rallying Ndigbo also to nominate and eventually vote on that thread. Nomination is still in progress there but it appears few folks visit that thread.

Ejiné:

Like play like play, affairs don turn tribal. . .

VoodooDoll:



Nigeria should be renamed "Triberia"

Beaf:

I was rigged out by Jarus, so I urge everyone to vote for [size=14pt]OnlyTruth [/size] as da man!

dayokanu:

After the voting Can the moderators view who voted who and disqualify votes of any poster who probably registered between now and 30th

This is to guard against multiple registration and voting

dayokanu:


Jarus in the event that two candidates decide to ally togther, What would happen? would you delete the name of the candidate from the polls or add their votes after 30th?

Beaf:

I was rigged out by Jarus, so I urge everyone to vote for [size=14pt]OnlyTruth [/size] as da man!

Jarus:

Lol.

Hmmmnn, Dayo, how you see that one? Na wa o.


Ok. My apologies. We thought the counting of votes was going to be more time consuming. But with an improved process(counting from time to time) it was a lot easiier, hence the commencement of second stage mmediately. Immediately.

After the voting Can the moderators view who voted who and disqualify votes of any poster who probably registered between now and 30th

This is to guard against multiple registration and voting

Jarus:

Unfortunately, we can't prevent this but I don't think it can have significant impact. I can't imagine more than 5 new IDs coming up just because of a polling, which will mean height of joblessness. So the effect may just not be significant in determining eventual winner. Max, 5 new IDs created for that purpose, and I don't think 5 phony votes can swing the pendulum to a side. Opening new ID is not that easy; you open new email, go through registration, wait for confirmation etc. It's a tedious process that is intrinsically discouraging, except for a jobless person.

On alliance, we will not encourage alliance but we cannot prevent it. But we will not add up any votes.

Also, the Mods too cannot view the result until expiration, when it will become visible to everybody. The suspense adds fun to it, raises expectation and prevent band-wagon effect .

Sagamite:

AHHH!

This na Professor Iwu o!

afam4eva:

Please can someone tell me why the poll results are not in real time.

Beaf:

I was rigged out by Jarus, so I urge everyone to vote for [size=14pt]OnlyTruth [/size] as da man!

ekt_bear:

It looks like there is a decent chance that this politics section poster of the year will become a bit of a joke.

I wouldn't ordinarily comment on stuff like this while it is in progress, but before you vote you must ask yourself, is this person truly amongst the best posters on this particular forum of NL?

Does this person represent the best reasoning, the best arguments, and the sharpest ideas in this forum? If you were to compile a list of the "best posts/threads of NL", is this person's name going to show up heavily?

Ah well. Nigeria in general has difficulty recognizing quality and talent, so perhaps not too surprising that Nairalanders would struggle with the same.

If you decide to vote a monkey or a piece of toilet paper as your best poster of the year, that too is your prerogative. It won't make the monkey/toilet paper look bad of course, but it sure as hell will make you look bad.

Odunnu:

Great minds think alike . its Onlytruth or we thumbprint, toeprint, elbowprint and even kneeprint.

Jarus:

You don't know anything.

Even America can come and learn from our electoral system

afam4eva:

This election is a huge joke. I wonder why the voting is secret if not that there's an attempt to rig the result. How do we know who the true winner is if we can't see the result. Why can't we just see the result of the poll like it has.been on this forum. Is that too much to ask?

Jarus:

1, To avoid band-wagon effect. If poll is showing the results, it discourages some voters. "my candidate can never win, still far behind, make I no waste my vote jare". To avoid such.

2, To prevent rigging. If candidate X is seeing results and realize he is just, say 2 votes behind the leading candidate in the last minutes, all he or his supporters need do is create 3 new IDs and vote for him.

3, Suspense makes it more fun. It raises expectation. Everybody will want to come and see results on Dec 30, as against knowing the winner already by trend of poll even before expiration of voting

4, Even mods cannot view results until it becomes visible to everyone.

Duduknight:

Aren't you one of those that started the sectional voting from the Eze ndi gbo thread? Onlytruth had only 6 votes before you made your post below on the 8th December and then ended up with 22 votes after your rallying call. You start something unsavoury, when others join in, you complain. SMDH. You are one of those responsible for turning the voting into an ethnic one and by extension, a joke.

Jarus:

That said, I agree with ekt-bear that this poll may not throw up the best in this section this year. And that's a pity.
I have seen nomination and voting along ethnic lines, which is very unfortunate. The 3 finalists last year were clearly the best and most analytical for that year, save few people that are equally good but not so active like Afam and Maxsiollun, hence did not get a look at.

The reason why the 2009 edition for this section was not officially recognised was because of a flawed process which threw up Becomrich as winner - and I'm talking about Becomrich of 2009, not that of today, who is now saner. The mod then did not help matters, as rules of the games were not stated.


Notwithstanding, this is politics section, dwelled not only by critics and analysts, but also politicians, so we cannot totally rule out politics, much as we want objectivity to be the guiding factor. I personally voted for Katsumoto, though my views on issues converge more with Gbawe's than Katz, whose views are usually at variance with mine on most issues, but I recognize his good arguing skills and fact-based debates, as well as his knowledge of political history.

Odunnu:

None of the posters reflect the best reasoning like you say, but we must make do with what we have on ground. At the end of the day, its all for fun. Hope you've voted?

Odunnu:

You are beginning to irritate me . . .

houvest:

What really are you mad at here? That I called Ndigbo to visit this thread and vote? Are they not qaulified to vote? Is NL voting reserved for only one ethnic group?  You prefer them to remain in ignorance of this thread and to be disenfrachised? And you are mad because Onlytruth got 22 nominations? Is he not articulate enough to be nominated here? What really is unsavoury  or sectional in calling people to go and vote? You tell me? What is unsavoury is disenfranchising folks through lack of information which clearly you prefer ? What is unsavoury is trying to win at all costs through alliances which I have never advocated. Let every Nairaland be properly informed so he can exercise his voting rights and may the best win. Do you know how many folks voted in last years edition?

Katsumoto  16 (42.1%)
Kobojunkie  5 (13.2%)
Dapobear  17 (44.7%)
 
Total Votes: 38

So how can only 38 votes out of thousands determine who is the section poster of the year? Why do folks like you want to enthrone mediocrity by disenfranchising folks?  Are you actually looking for less voters in order to enthrone an already annointed candidate ? Just know that some of us will not sit back and watch all those shenanigans anymore. Big brother is here and is certainly watching.