The Votes Are In!

Well, technically there's still another 16-17 hours left in the poll. Blame me for not realizing that I'd probably want to settle my decision before the start of the event. Thanks to everyone who voted... and I should note that I'm particularly pleased to have gotten the participation I did. I know the usual suspects chimed in, but a good handful of people dropped by specifically because I asked for their input. So thanks to both groups, I actually got a number of votes greater than 5. And I didn't even pad the number by voting.

Still, I made it clear that I'd make the final decision, and that I wouldn't necessarily listen to the popular vote. That's right, I'm an army of one. Or my own electoral college. Or something. Anyway, let's get on to the big announcement: your winner... or should I say winners, and my choice(s) for Script Frenzy are:

Wow. I'm still amazed that so many people seemed to like this idea. The name and the premise didn't seem all that strong to me, but I'm glad that something clicked with people. Honestly, I almost forgot to add this idea into the list at all. But it's an idea I've played around with enough to have a few solid ideas stored up (and a few new ones to boot).

But since there's only so much script you can do for one book (lengthy or not), and because I was reminded how much I had floating around in my head about this title (you'll figure out why that's funny later), here is winner number two:

A twisted tale of twisted people and the strange but frightening world in which they live. They're around you. They're beside you. They're.. inside you? It's Frak. And it's totally going to suck when I only script out the first episode or two. Bwa-hahaha...! But we'll see.

At any rate, I'll likely work on both concepts enough to reach a definitive stopping point. I don't believe in leaving major cliffhangers unanswered anyway. In theory.

And to show you how sick I am, I'm seriously debating staying up until midnight just to make my official start right out of the gate. Although since I have work in the morning, I just might not stay up that late. Thanks again, and stay tuned for further updates.

After Review, The Flag Has Been Picked Up..

So according to this report, thousands of voters that were flagged and wouldbe denied the opportunity to vote will get to now. This is good news, regardless of who you planned to vote for.

It's kind of sad that this kind of flagging and disqualification has been taking place across the country. My favorite part is how many of the officials overseeing the process want to claim they have the right to do so now, particularly so close to the election.

It's funny (and by funny I mean sad) that said officials try to act like their being robbed of some right to purge voter logs. Anything but that. The simple truth is that it's too late to do any bookkeeping. See, the laws in place in most states (including this one) prevent any kind of purging or removing of people from the logs within 90 days of an election. This is not only so that there is no attempted deception with regards to any possible suppression, but also so that there can't even be the illusion of any sort of foul play. Not to mention that challenging registrations at this point gives a person little to no time to attempt to correct the mistake before the election. Fortunately, early voting in many places has helped expose many potential hangups that might not have been found until election day.

In short, any officials that wanted to fuss over any fakers in the rosters have had the better part of 2-3 years (3-4 years if you only count presidential elections) to sift them out. So if you happen to know anyone that may have been told that they couldn't vote or that their registration was being challenged, please tell them that they most likely can and they should recheck things or just go and attempt to vote anyway. Because even though they're supposed to be notified that they can vote, I don't have much faith in the system to come through like it should.