Cypherpunks don't just write code, they engage in petty vote fraud! =-=-=-=-= From: mlegare@wetware.com (M. Legare, etc.) Newsgroups: alt.usenet.kooks,news.admin.net-abuse.misc Subject: KotM Winners for May 1996 - SOMEONE'S miffed! Date: 3 Jun 1996 16:05:12 GMT Organization: Castle Wetware's Western Keep Lines: 112 Message-ID: <4ov2fo$1mm@numbers.wetware.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.wetware.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well... it's June and here we go with the Winners for May - at least I'm more on-schedule than I was for April... KOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 1996 - DMITRI VULIS (dlv@bwalk.dm.com) In one of the most HOTLY contested KotM races in the history of the award under my watch, Dmitri Vilus NARROWLY edged out vote taker Dave C (tale) Lawrence in a race that was right down to the wire. Let's recap: Dmitri Vulis nominated tale for KotM because tale was involved in a "conspiracy of thousands" to send out "forged rmgroup" messages for a newsgroup that Dmitri wanted to create. Dmitri then posted evidence of somewhat dunious validity, and someone nominated Dmitri. And the votes started pouring in. Some from congress.gov, some from algebra.com, some from bwalk.dm.com... hundreds of votes. Well, after an initial surge ahead by the tale backers, a DELUGE of email backing Vulis for KotM poured in, and, since I had to assume that ALL votes were valid (as Dmitri kept forging posts to misc.test in my name to show his displeasure at my INSINUATING that he might have forged any votes), Dmitri won by a narrow 30 vote margin! Vote Count: Dmitri Vulis - 428 votes David C Lawrence (tale) - 398 votes Ed McClosky - 18 votes Yehuda Silver - 9 votes Bill Palmer - 4 votes ellisd@netcom.com - 4 votes Mr SAM - 2 votes None of the Above - 3 votes George Conklin - 1 vote Rachel Ewing-Pace - 0 votes smokindude@aol.com - 0 votes Clueless Newbie of the Month for May 1996 - MARGE KRICK Marge won in a less vopulumnous but just as hotly contested race. As you may know, Marge is offering a list of ALL USNET NEWSGROUPS for a very reasonable price - JUST the thing we need, unless you know how to look at your ..newsrc file. Oops. Vote Count: Marge Krick - 12 votes Bill Byers - 11 votes Brian Dear - 7 votes John Turco - 7 votes None of the Above - 5 votes Hook Line & Sinker for May 1996 - NONE OF THE ABOVE Apparently, Charles "Chuckie Monster" Newman didn't impress enough people. Sorry, Charlie. Vote Count: None of the Above - 19 votes Charles "Chuckie Monster" Newman - 9 votes The Victor Von Frankenstein Memorial "Wierd Science" Award - THE USA PARLIAMENT Brainchild of politial mover and reformer James Ogle (joogle@netcom.com), the USA PAR is the ONLY "fair" and truly representative governing body in the US. Plan? Scheme? Deluded ravings? Well, several members of the USA PAR (who also post to alt.politics.greens) have voted to disband the USA PAR, to replace James Ogle as secretary, and a few dozen other self- destructive things, yet the ballots just keep rolling out... Vote Count: USA PAR - 19 votes Joly*s 4-Dimensional Speakers - 6 votes the Music Theory of Alber Silverman - 4 votes Church of Scientology (write-in) - 4 votes None of the Above - 15 Votes THE GOLDEN KILLFILE - DR. JAI MAHRAJ I'm not gonna explain, because if you don't know, you're better off. Check soc.culture.hawaiian and a few thousan related newsgroups. Vote Count: Jai Mahraj - 30 votes None of the Above - 13 votes the alt.religion.scientology spammer (write-in): 1 LAW DOCTOR JOHN GRUBOR (write-in): 1 Ted Holden (write-in): 1 OK. That's it for May. Nominees go to alt.usenet.kooks, and I'll have the new nominees post out soon. Oh, and by the way, if anyone sees ANYTHING that is nominally from me BUT is also cross-posted to misc.test, you have my express written permission to CANCEL that article. You know who you are. And no more naughty forgeries ok guys? Matthew Legare KotM Vote Wrangler