Joshua Kronengold

1: From reading between the lines (and common sense) it would make sense that if Sandman (the episode) were DQed for political reasons, the season would also "have to be" DQed for the same reasons. Dave has basically said that listing them the way he did was his call, which seems to back up that really, they were both DQed for political reasons but he listed that way because in one case he could quote a reason.

2: Yeah, this is an excellent resource I've quoted multiple times, but if I didn't list it here it was because I was already running long on my own time.

3: I basically agree with you. Others clearly do not.

4: Oddly enough, EPH made the efforts here much more obvious, in a way not having EPH stats wouldn't have, because it shows cross-corellation between ballots in a very clear way. Ultimately, the main problem with Dave's assumption that an honest and fair Admin can (and should) just ignore slate ballots is that unlike fraudulent ballots, slate ballots -aren't- fraudulent -- they're problematic because of the vote-power-magnification problem, but they do represent real members really voting, who deserve a proportional share of the ballot...but not an extraproportional share.

5: Yep! This is honestly why trying to handle too much at the BM itself is a really, really bad idea which happens all too often (and why "the room's" tendency to send anything the slightest bit complicated to committee is a good thing, overall). Unintended consequences are unintended, and consequences. We can't avoid -every- unintended conseqeunce, but we can at least -try-.