Jita Park Speakers Corner

Greetings Voters,

We have heard your feedback on the voting system UI and have made some changes to make it easier to vote, especially for those of you voting with multiple accounts.

• We have added the ability to double click on a candidate and their entry will be added to the next open preference slot.


• Your voting preference list will be stored locally on your device. This means that if you fill out a ballot and then log into an alt character, your previous voting choices will be restored automatically and you may then alter them as you wish. We hope this will alleviate some of the fatigue of voting with large numbers of accounts. We would like to reiterate that this is a local function and not stored by or transmitted to CCP or any 3rd party group.


• While the candidate list will always appear in a random order upon opening, to make it easier to find the candidates you are looking for you may select to sort them from A-Z


• These changes are likely to disable many of the popular voting scripts that have been created by players to automatically fill out ballots. We would appreciate it if these were not recreated, voting should be done by people, not scripts. We hope that the UI difficulties that made people feel these were necessary have been fixed.


• If you are having any additional problems with the UI for voting or if you have any suggestions on ways we can further improve our UI please send an eve-mail to CCP Dolan

These updates are live.

EDIT: If you are having trouble hitting submit after reloading your candidate list we are aware of this problem and will be fixing it shortly.

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please allow ceos to cast votes on behalf of their entire corporation tia~~~

I suggest for next time a proxy mechanism

naturally, the ceo of the alliance holding corp, or the ceo of an individual corp, can be assumed to be natural representative of their members

so, in the latter half of the election to increase the representativeness of the CSM and to get more people voting, the CEO of the holding corp or the ceo of an individual corp could cast a proxy ballot on behalf of their members who could not vote. naturally, those members could cast an individual vote previously or assign their proxy to someone else

this inventive method would increase the number of voters and allow a more representative and legitimate csm, as it was formed from the input of more subscribers

hahahaha, no.

Go through picking who to vote for and click vote........... and my session must have timed out as it said please log in again......


Much like any post more than 1 paragraph and 5 seconds of thought. But I have no way to save my votes like I do in a post. Let me try again, maybe this new feature to save a vote actually worked while the actual vote did not.



Edit: Okay it did save my initial unsuccessful vote. But I seem to be able to hit the vote button over and over again? is this correct. how do I know my vote is registered. Shouldn't there be some visual indication that I have actually voted?

You're correct, naturally, but since they specifically deployed these fixes so they could nerf the scripts with minimal howling, it seems unlikely that they'll be receptive to your suggestion. Who cares about procedural fairness!

Maybe next time they will -- on the first try, no less -- release a UI that a human can use.

Voting scripts... that's some nice step forward in making the CSM elections look like bona fide democracy in action.

Okay, I applaud the attempt but this CSM 8 vote has been plagued with issues.

- First off, without logging into the eve client I can only find a link to the vote page if I go to the community page, find a link referencing the CSM 8 election, then clicking a link in that page. On the front page of Eve Online there should be a link.
In the forums under Eve information Portal there should be a Stickied link saying VOTE. And just to be complete a slickied link the CSM section on the forums saying VOTE.

- I click the link in the patcher, it kept me in the patcher and the voting didn't work at all for me. At least while I was in the patcher it kept my old votes. But it never worked. When I later switched to the browser, (after finding the link to the voting page) my old picks were lost.

- Time out issues voting. I have 30 plus candidates to read through. Yes I actually read them instead of being a useless twit and trying to use some script. Now that it had lost my previous votes I had to go back and re-read all of them. Honestly I was a little peeved at this point and only voted for 2/3 of them that I could remember by name after reading the first 10 or so again.

- On the page where you summarized each candidates platform, there should have been a method to highlight / select who you like and vote from there.

- Voting should be easy and foolproof. I am sorry this was not. But as I said, I applaud the effort to organize the information and attempt to stream line the process. Hopefully CSM 9 has this feature. This is a game, but one I care about. I will not spend days analyzing each candidate, but I will do my best to spend a few hours reading each platform and supporting those who appear to have the background and the games best interests. Please don't make waste this time.

Remember usually most people have less than 5 people to choose from when they vote. Damn in the states I get the impression it is 2. We have 30+

lol. I'm really not sure how to respond to his apart from awarding CCP an 8/10 score for ironic value.