It's like watching a train wreck - you just can't stop!

[layla]

So it turns out that LJ advisory board candidate legomymalfoy received actual death threats urging her to drop out of the race. Rather than let the bastards win, she's staying in.

Former candidate (and buddy of jameth) cambler, who was losing anyway, dropped out yesterday over a rumor of death threats against an unspecified LJ-er. Now that it turns out he's not the target, rather than offering sympathy to legomymalfoy like a decent human being, he's accusing her of not caring about her family's safety and whining like a five-year-old that he was unfairly forced to drop out of the race [ETA: post is now locked] and that LJ should invalidate the whole election on his behalf. (Wahhhhh! Mommeeeeee! They made me drop out! It's somebody else's faaaauuuult!) And the commenters, who are pretty much the same group of Jameth-supporting trolls who have been acting like fuckwits all over every OTHER election post, are quick to claim the death threat's a fraud and any rise in her vote count at this point must be due to sockpuppetry. (Please note in regards to that last comment thread, the only "flak for cheating" that she's been getting, that I've seen, is from Jameth's camp's unsupported claims that she's been cheating, which is rather a different thing.)

I'm alternately horrified at these people's utter lack of human decency, and horrified at myself because I can't seem to leave it alone.

Here's a link to the voting page again, because god, I do not want to see this batch of scum win this election.

EDIT (5/30): The election's over, I'm about snarked out for a while, and so, I'm stepping away from this discussion for the moment. Non-friend comments are still screened, and I may be (very) tardy to unscreen/reply.

Comments

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

"Documentation" seems to be a foreign concept to them. Of course, in order to document something, it would have to be actually TRUE. I'd be perfectly willing to take a look at evidence if they could actually furnish any, but it looks like they're just hoping that if they repeat an accusation often enough and loudly enough, people will start believing it. (Just like real elections!) Pardon me while I laugh.

Luckily, it seems like their slander and nasty tactics are doing them more harm than good, looking at the poll numbers.

[zixi.livejournal.com]

"Documentation" seems to be a foreign concept to them

No kidding. I've seen four pieces of "evidence" of sockpuppeting: 1) the screencap from Rydra's journal in which a few people talk about the possibility of multiple voting and one person says they tries and couldn't. 2) the screencap from Furiosity's journal in which one or two people admit to voting with, if I remember right, two journals. 3) Cambler's insistence that 2 (2 = mass conspiracy) people with 70 and 200 accounts each voted with all of them - never mind neither one was identified, he didn't know who those votes were for, and he later said the 70 person nulled their votes. 4) the one letter/note Jameth posted, unattributed to anyone that I think described how it was possible, but was so garbled I wasn't sure.

Which obviously means proof of a giant pro-legomymalfoy conspiracy.

it looks like they're just hoping that if they repeat an accusation often enough and loudly enough, people will start believing it.

Honestly, that's what I'm seeing. They've already decided the death threat was a giant conspiracy hoax.

Yay to poll numbers. Yay to bullies not winning for once.

(I found today, randomly, a post from back in the nomination process where a few of his supporters started spamming a pregnant nominee telling her she should get an abortion. I really need to stop looking at this stuff before I lose all faith in humanity)