Volconvo Mock Presidential Election 2012!

[Yarn]

I realize not everyone here is American, but in a forum I posted in a long time ago, we had a mock election for US president coincide with the actual election. It had primaries, more than 2 parties, voter party registration, vice presidential candidates, debates, Q&A threads/Party HQs, and then finally a general election.

It would take some doing, but it could be fun to replicate that here. Liberals outnumber conservatives, but since we can have more than 2 parties, we can split the vote so that things will be competitive. We could have a communist party, social democrat, US democrat, Republican, libertarian, whatever gets a minimum number of nominations (mayber 3 or 4). Everyone with a certain modicum post count could vote, regardless of where they are actually from, and the winner will merely receive symbolic acreditation.

We could have a month dedicated to primaries and intraparty debates with questions drawn from our forum members, perhaps those of the party in question, and then move onto a general election with a series of debates culminating in November or sooner.

Ibskins thread suggests that there already is some support for this kind of idea.

In the other forum we only had 1 moderator, and it didn't seem all that taxing.

Does anyone else support this? Or oppose it?

[LetThereBe]

Vote for me as Volconvo's mock-president and my first act will be to abolish mock-elections!

In seriousness, it could be amusing.

[Angry Citizen]

I don't think we would have enough participation to form the requisite number of parties. Besides, this is Volconvo. We'd all just vote for ourselves.

[Thanatos]

Thanatos/Thanatos 2012! I talk to myself enough to be both President and VP, and I am all-knowing, all-seeing, and wise.

[Yarn]

Thanatos/Thanatos 2012! I talk to myself enough to be both President and VP, and I am all-knowing, all-seeing, and wise.

As I said, you'd need 3-4 nominations to form a party.

I don't think we would have enough participation to form the requisite number of parties. Besides, this is Volconvo. We'd all just vote for ourselves.

As for inadequate number of people to form parties, we might not have enough for every party I mentioned, but certainly enough for 3-4. I mean, just looking at the most recent posts, we are accreting at a rate of almost a post a minute. It is probably more or less prime time now, but still. Surely we have enough activity to handle this. And it may engender more activity.

The old forum we did this in was much smaller and less active.

It isn't a question of can it happen, it is a question of whether or not we want it to.

[The Decider]

Thanatos/Thanatos 2012! I talk to myself enough to be both President and VP, and I am all-knowing, all-seeing, and wise.

I want to see 12 years of your tax returns first. I suspect you have hidden investments all over the Caribbean. You'll be the first Volconvo presidential tax scandal!

[Angry Citizen]

I want to see 12 years of your tax returns first. I suspect you have hidden investments all over the Caribbean. You'll be the first Volconvo presidential tax scandal!

And here we have the first Super PAC ad.

[Chris the Chees]

I don't think we would have enough participation to form the requisite number of parties. Besides, this is Volconvo. We'd all just vote for ourselves.

AC for the Killjoy Party 2012!

[Dan74]

I propose the suspension of the Constitution and the installation of a one-party state.


...Anyone?

[Yarn]

I propose the suspension of the Constitution and the installation of a one-party state.


...Anyone?

There are multiple people here who are for socializing most major industry (Barts per instance?), so a socialist party could probably get enough nominations. Socialist party doesn't necessarily mean that exactly, but they wouldn't be that far from you.

[Angry Citizen]

I propose the suspension of the Constitution and the installation of a one-party state.


...Anyone?

... but we already have that. :|