voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20

[Emma Wrigley]

My votes seem to have been lost too, ergo

1) Suttree
2) Augie March
3) V
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>From: Joseph Tracy [brook7 at sover.net]
>Sent: 18/5/2010 6:04:40 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20
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>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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