Last Thursdays election class was preceded by two days of what I can only say was shenanigans. Even though they were pretty good shenanigans it reminded me of how ridiculous election time is with all of the shameless self promotion and taking down of opponents by cold logical rebuttals. The only person that I thought composed themselves well was Gloria, but part of her campaign committee did place an absurd assumption based on a loose interpretation of an article.
Besides all of the tomfoolery, it was interesting that Gloria won, Jared got the popular votes, and Nathan lost. It really didn't surprise me that Gloria won due to partial the large population of women in the class and also do to her passive standing in the election. It is amusing, and kind of shocking, that Jared won the popular vote when all he did was inflate himself with no real solid stand point. His campaign was all "feel good" images and false promises (like politics!). Lastly, I thought it was strange that Nathan got dead last in two of the ways to tally votes and second in another because I thought his tactic for Dictator was quite logical. But that assumes humans are logical which has been proven time and time again to not be the case.
On the topic of voting systems I was kind of taken aback to on how small of a margin of difference in actual votes there was but how different the systems tallied and predicted different winners. This does beg the question can there be a basis for tallying votes? It seems that the question is no because is dependent on what the voting system favors.
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