voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20

[Aarnoud Rommens]

Aarnoud Rommens wrote:

> 1. Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
> 2. Calvino - Invisible Cities 
> 3. Pynchon - Against the day

On 2010-05-18, at 1:04 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> Ray Easton
> )Invisible Man, 2)Ulysses, 3)Miss Lonelyhearts
> Alex Colter
> 1)Against the Day 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Ulysses      Alex 2nd ballot:.- 1)V 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Mumbo Jumbo
> Joseph Tracy
> Farewell My Lovely, The Master and Margarita, Mumbo Jumbo
> Keith
> 1)Nabokov- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle   2)Wurlitzer- Nog 3)McCarthy- Suttree
> Robin Landseadel
> 1) 2)and 3)Farewell My Lovely
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> Above are those who have posted a vote. Please post the list or myself , if I missed anyone's vote.  The first question is should we allow a reconsidered 2nd ballot as Alex did. I say yes, that that is the simplest solution to Laura's concern of not wanting to revisit ATD. I assume Alex shifted to V in response. The problem is that we could end with last minute tactical changes. But what the hell, if we  also end up with a reasonable agreement.   This voting which seemed to me like a way to get to an actual book choice gets tricky fast as we can all see. What are the rules? What are the rules about the rules?  If we were all sitting in a circle we could work through this shit pretty fast but this is cyberland.  We do need a poll closing date. And if we end up with complete confusion about the tallying, we may have to do a runoff as Henry suggests, though the instant runoff was trying to avoid that.  Heck, we could all walk away in disgust, though I think the p-list will endure this bit of madness, as others.
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> So! Poll closing: midnight,  Thursday, May 20. That is about all I can handle trying to guide us through this particular way of making a decision.  If you do a second ballot it will simply replace the first. If you think this whole attempt is  a flawed tyrannical imposition of 2 wolves and a lamb deciding to vote about what to have for dinner type democracy, it does at least cast  some light on the inherent complexities of voluntary group decision making.
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> And now we go to a fictional aether high above us to  the  completely made up radio transmitter of the Inconvenience, where we can hear the vast worldwide tumult of DEMOCRACY IN ACTION, where below us in the streets of  the word's cities and gathered in the towns , villages, toilets and suburban malls, millions and millions and perhaps as many as maybe 8 people are gathered in wild exuberance to celebrate the joy of mindless sloganeering as we come up to this historic book choice, You can  hear the ringing cries coming up to us from below:   Miss Lonely hearts , Now; consider the alternatives!  Yes we can!  Ada, Ada, Consider the data.  Freedom may in fact be free!  V today, V tomorrow, V right after U. " If it's fascism for freedom, I can dig it. " ,  Marchin with Augie; he's my man,  if  Augie can't do it nobody can. "I'll let you be in my dream, if I can be in yours."  Mumbo, Mumbo, Mumbo Jumbo, flies like an elephant name of Dumbo.  Mumbo, Mumbo, Mumbo, Jumbo; sips like a soup name of gumbo!
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> And so as we leave this election special from aboard the soaring freedom of limited earthly allegiance, from that  imaginary but well loved INCONVENIENCE. We can hear fading into the distance the joyful shouts and rifle shots, the threats , manifestos, improvised explosive devices, and general cussing and outrage  of freedom on the wing. May a good read be had by all.
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