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It was a closed election, so who casted that vote for Hashimoto only the Imperial Sun Party will know.

In any case, I am proud of the Party's decision and look forward to the Dokomo Administration!

Hail the Imperial Sun Party, hail the Emperor and hail the next president of the Great Japanese Empire, Dokomo!

Those of us (former North Koreans) who are going back, have already gone back. It's a shame that Ranger left without saying anything, but I think you'll find that those of us who are remaining show significant dedication to eJapan.

I look forward to voting Dokomo and continuing to be a part of the ISP.

I didn't even need to know, that ISP supports Dokomo. I support him by heart. He's got my vote!

If you are referring to the City Party (now known as "Macedonian Phalanx Party") tactics, they likely relied on the use of spreadsheets to coordinate voters to vote for "least vote received" candidates rather than encouraging voters to vote for whoever they thought was best, in order to keep all their candidates at the same or near equal vote total or higher, crowding out candidates from other parties Now that eNorth Korea is back up, you can sort of see what I mean here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/elections/country-73-election-congress-0-date-2009-06-region-672" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/elections/co[..]n-672 (in many regions, all City Party candidates had EXACTLY the same number of votes, as someone pointed out in a thread a long time ago).

To be fair, ALL parties that have a chance of doing well in Congressional elections do this in eRepublik, from huge countries like the eUSA down to one region countries. Realistically, is nation with maybe 400 citizens able to field 40 active congressmen? Of course not.

But more concerning is the movement of voters to and from other parties with the intent of altering top five party ranking. This is undemocratic (and therefore a "dirty tactic" to someone like me who supports a free exchange of ideas in a democratic setting) as it does not matter how good or bad one party's ideas are, if a large number of voters move to another party to bump them out, they are denied their chance to run for congress.

To be sure, these are small issues, but worth mentioning. Would the TFC have made top five without Godzilla help? Probably. But no1kevlin probably had a reason why he did not send recruitment messages to the Godzilla membership.

And for the record, I think Crawling Chaos is right--the Godzillas are here to stay and I think they will continue to greatly contribute to eJapan.

I sent recuitment messages to all parties including Godzilla Party members. This is the umpteenth time you've brought this up and i resent the implications you are making.

I ask that you delete the unfounded accusations as you and i know they break erep rules.

There are no implications in the article, but there are explicit statements that indicate voters were moved. There is nothing in the game mechanics or eRep rules that stop you or anyone else from doing that, and there's nothing in the eRep rules against mentioning it. As I indicated in my previous comment, it seems unseemly, like the act of "PTOers," an accusation that will surely be leveled against Dokomo by some international elites should he win the election, and an accusation I would like to dispel. It helps if there is no "funny business" in the background that opponents could point at to support their erroneous claims.

I think the TFC would have made the comeback without the aggressive recruiting tactics because of the public popularity of the Q5 DS in Kyushu, as well as some older members (Seixo, Origineel, etc.) making a comeback too. So why risk the reputation of eJapan that our top parties would do such things?

Thoughtful. We shall see where the waves takes us. Only then will we know in which direction to row.

Who knows what drives ambition?

apparently the people have chosen to put their hopes on dokomo's shoulders.
let's see if he can carry such a burden

Good article overall, just a couple things I think need clarification:

1. TFC/no1kevlin did indeed send recruitment stuff to Godzilla members. He even sent me one and he knows full well that I'm part of the Godzilla leadership.

2. We (rea😛 ex-eNK who chose to stay in Japan even though eNK is more or less back) are in a no-win situation when it comes to political parties. We all moved to Godzilla at first, and long-time eJapan people tell us that we look like some sort of monolithic PTO party and that they'd feel more comfortable if we integrated more into other parties. I was strongly against this, but we did it anyway by having Lejina make the Ronin party along with having a number of people join just about every party except NAP and SOS. Now we are criticized for doing exactly what was asked of us, even though we didn't even really want to do it in the first place.

3. Regarding moving people between parties. TFC and Godzilla are separate entities. I consider no1kevlin to be an ally, but at the same time I am more comfortable with him not speaking directly for Godzilla party so I'm glad the TFC thing is working out for him. Our only part in the party hopping stuff was to support ULJ when it became clear that a party was leaving the top 5 to make room for TFC's return.

Finally, thanks for the endorsement, ISP. Dokomo, myself, and the rest of the cabinet will do our best to continue improving eJapan for all its citizens.

I will acknowledge that I told party members to leave Godzilla to join ULJ to prevent them from being knocked out of Top 5. Godzilla does not abandon it's allies.

Btw, to shuffle the parties around in and out of the top5 doesn't keep anyone from running for congress. Pretty much all the top5 parties have openly stated members of non top5 parties are welcome to run in their party and this has been happening regularly with each elections. Heck, I'm the party president of a non top5 party myself and I made it in congress every month since I moved in eJapan.

There is a "king of the hill" effect when you are part of such a large organization, move to a "small pond" like eJapan and are instantly the number one power in the country due to your numbers: people immediately identify you as outsiders and that probably never goes away.

* One of the biggest criticisms of Japan by the Godzillas was that eJapan was dominated by "the old guard," (don't know who coined that term, but I remember it used a lot) the eJapanese political scene before the Godzillas arrived, was that all the "parties had leadership that were friends." And it was true, NAP, ISP, Orange Party, KMT were quite friendly with each other. It was a quieter time in eJapan, but not necessarily good for eJapan. I think it would be unfortunate if the "old guard" was simply replaced by a new one (Godzilla, TFC, Ronin, etc...).

The point of the criticism was/is to make sure that Dokomo dots his 'i's and crosses his 't's, so to speak. Although not very active at that level, I understand that international politics is very clique-y, and in the event of a Dokomo presidency, the are some who will try to use every excuse to marginalize him (like "he wasn't really elected by the public anyway") and his election.

@ Vorph Also, I received recruitment messages, too. I don't really doubt that everyone received messages, but that the real intent was to recruit from other parties. The real Godzillas would not jump for something like "free stuff" to join a new party. 🙂

fair criticism, hope dokomo can lead us well! he has my vote.

Good luck, Dokomo!

I remember that election in North Korea! It was my first time running for congress. I got one pathetic vote, my own. I guess I did not make the City Party cut. Anyway, I want to go back to Korea soon, maybe even start a company, but I would like to do so with some guarantees that the government won't do something stupid like attack Russia again. Hopefully Dokomo isn't thinking about doing something stupid like that with Japan too.

Hashimoto insists on running every time and always gets a single vote from himself 😃

Geno Garon!

Good luck Dokomo!

"but I would like to do so with some guarantees that the government won't do something stupid like attack Russia again"

Safety is not guaranteed.


Good luck Dokomo. Hopefully you won't maintain the lame duck status quo around here.

I was never in GP!

For those who laugh at my one vote, I still want to remind you that Geno Garon received no votes.

Important is participation.

Well we all know its your own vote anyways, not like that changes much, lol.