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Here's the back story: Three departments are joining, and the question came up: what should we call ourselves?

Problem is, two of the existing department names are in this poll. If either of those win the poll, then the other department gets its nose rubbed in it forever.

IMO, that was a mistake. This identification shouldn't be about winners and losers, it should be about building a new (larger) team, with a new identity.

Of course, being computer literate, it's almost trivial to clear the cookie and vote early and often. ;-)

Ultimately, I (and a few others) are hoping we get three times the number of votes as there are people in the combined department. Then maybe we'll get the poll re-done, sans the Schadenfreude entries.

Edited 2008-04-23 21:17 PDT

Fwiw, if I had more time, I'd prefer to have worked with the web programmers to set up a poll with: a) one person = one vote, and b) a weekly vote, with the lowest candidate dropped off the ballot.

I'm actually getting somewhere with InfoCards, to make the web sign-up easy. And I found something that shows how to easily integrate it with a PHP website. But I'm not proficient enough a programmer to (quickly) build something to help with this particular project. sigh.