voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20

[Robert Mahnke]

I voted for The Master and Margarita, The Dog of the South, and
Gringos, and am happy to do so again.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> 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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