And I am going to abstain as usual to deny the system, yay. \o/
Better to contribute to the abstaining masses that are actually proof of the stupidity of the system than contributing to a thing I find utterly idiotic.
And I am definitly not going to lose hours reading every piece of propaganda they write either. Now to vote, not only you have to actually read their ideas, but you also have to go into the hassle of sorting several of them out.
Mangala for Jesus 2013 tbh.
If only because he is regularly exposed to the widest demographic of players, be they nullseccers, low seccers or supposed carebears out to prove something over a weekend of pvp. Lots of good candidates this time, but having contacts with a candidate whose views you share really does improve the process.
make them socialise, make them work for your votes. text is easy, speech is hard when you need to convince people of your intentions - I strongly advise making your votes work for you by pressing on the people who pique your interest and promoting the idea of teamspeak/mumble/vent quorums to see if they are as good on the mic as they are on the keyboard.
Politicians as a rule lie or conflate their positive points. VOIP and face to face contact doesn;t prevent this - but it certainly makes it that tiny bit harder.
I simply do not have the time to spend on that kind of crap tbh. I put my trust in CCP, the ones with the actual skills, to decide what is good or bad for the game, not in a lobbyist, useless, non representative CSM.