User blog comment:Nalyd Renrut/Be Nice - Please Read/@comment-1228137-20110823214936/@comment-1874924-20110823221259

My understanding is that Oppose votes aren't actually counted, because the admins don't want to encourage "strategic" voting. That said, I think the option to publicly oppose can be helpful as long as people can keep it civil.

I don't like the idea of awarding tiebreakers to the candidate that gets its final vote first. That would disadvantage voters who prefer to vote later in the month. In some situations, it could also discourage people from supporting several candidates. I think the current system, wherein the admins simply ask someone to break the tie, works well enough. Other possibilities include awarding a tiebreaker to the candidate that has been on the ballot the most previous times or had the most votes in the previous month. Of course, neither of those options would really apply to the FC ballot, because that ballot's use of themes tends to prevent candidates from appearing on the ballot month after month.