which happened over dinner at penang, over a week ago:

[S, running the election]
anyone who is nominated is not allowed to decline!

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[election procedure]

S: everyone make a one minute speech.
general protest: what! so long! etc
S: okay then, everyone say one sentence summing up your mission statement. [to person A] why don't you start?
A: last year i got us 400 dollars, but i let adrian embezzle it, so don't vote for me.

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[on the new policy of having one malaysian and one singaporean chair (instead of voting in any two persons)]

me: why does it have to be one malaysian and one singaporean?
darryl: this year we have affirmative action.

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[tactics]

B: "i will use funds to get us chicken rice."
C: "i can make chicken rice. if i am president i will make everyone chicken rice."
S: "that sounds like the progress package!"

[C won]

S: "the progress package works!"