Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-26247132-20160310225035

"The pre-announce a date, everyone votes (secret vote or public that doesn't matter) and they have a chancellor who appoints the members of the council. Though, rn the council doens't matter. Point is, Abby wanted to do the election the soonest possible so she could focus on the med bay and let Kane run things who was more willing and clearly better."

There was no pre-announced date because Abby decided while she was in Polis that same day to hold the election the next morning. Point is, Abby should have focused on her last task as Chancellor to leave her people in good hands, not passing them off to someone who not only tried to leave with 10 other armed people to take out a peace-keeping force sent by the Coalition they just joined hours earlier but also had only been there less than a week (he was living in MW prior and in Ice Nation even before that).

The whole thing was a sham of unrealistic maneuverings, especially considering how much of a dictatorship the Chancellor position has always been. She could have just declared that the election is invalid and she's keeping the title or just given it directly to Kane after the election and lied about it (we know she's lied a TON when she thinks it's in her best interests; look at all of S1 for examples). No leader would have ever done what Abby did regardless of how overtaxed she was performing two duties. If she was that incompetent to hold an election right at that moment, then I really have no idea how she managed to last THREE MONTHS as Chancellor/Doctor without someone trying to assassinate her. She was a worse Chancellor than Pike.