DDO Presidential candidates should be openly endorsed by two people before being able to run

It is very easy to set up another account, and in fact people have been creating dual accounts to use to vote for their own debates or to boost their win numbers by debating their own other profile, sometimes alternate accounts are used just to quickly unlock voting ability. My point is though that a single account could easily be created to be used just to get an endorsement, however crating two for an endorsement is better because if a person needs two endorsements, they cannot simply create two accounts because enough suspicion would be raised about two suddenly new accounts with no debates or forum posts or any knowledge of DDO who suddenly are endorsing the same presidential nominee. the point of having two nominations is to prevent a candidate from being nominated with a dummy account, and trying to use two dummy accounts would raise enough suspicion to realize the fraud that has taken place. 2) Why endorsements at all? I invite you to look at the latest presidential polls. Because of my interest in numbers and this site I went through the votes cast for president on the voting forum to help people find out whose winning, whose losing, and by how much. Here is what I found. 1st place = Innomen = 31 2nd place = Jimtimmy = 6 3rd place = Socialpinko = 5 4th place = Tyler90az Partam Ruhem Viper King Putin Reformedarsenal Comicalfanso Obama Vmpire321 Peacefulchaos With each having one vote. For every one legit candidate in the election there are 3 others who in almost every case have received one vote because they themselves have given themselves one vote. Almost all "candidates" are only on that list because they voted for themselves. Is this such a problem though? If you decided to browse the forums on DDO just a few days before the voting polls opened you would have seen a peculiar thing. Prior to the election actually occurring the forums were completely trampled with new threads about how candidates were announcing the were running for president, threads about who exactly was running for president, and even threads telling people to vote for them. Viperking alone created 3 threads to announce he was running for president or to tell voters to vote for him, he now trails with just under 2% of the polls with only one actual vote being cast for him, his own. 3) If candidates had to be nominated to campaign, the amount of spamming of new topics posted to the forums would go down significantly, people would be less confused about who all was running for president, and in some cases your mail would be less spammed. Recently a presidential candidate (who shall remain nameless) who only has one vote, his own, sent out friend requests with messages to as many people as he/she could find. In the message was his platform about why people should vote him for president of DDO. Now this site is known for its integrity and intelligence in debates and knowledge that can be learned from such debates, but if every six months a presidential race comes out and users have to put up with spams in the forums and even in their own mail, then that would cost this site integrity. 4) Benefit to DDO's integrity and population of intelligent members. Under this system, yes many people would not be able to run, I concede that. I also concede many of them may be perfectly normal candidates who have ideas, i cannot argue against that. However. .. .. If you look through some of the one-vote candidates who would be eliminated from running, their platforms for their change to DDO wouldnt exactly be beneficial to the website. .. . lets look at some candidates and their possible impact on DDO. 1) Viperking - wants to completely reorganize the site so that it is designed to eliminate trolls and spammers while drastically trying to increase the number of people who join the site. Trolls and votebombers are already handled and with an influx of many new people coming the nubmer of them being trolls or votebombers may get out of hand and his system might not eliminate all of them or eliminate actual normal DDO members. 2) Tyler90az - wants to make history by being mormon and trying to get as many people as possible to join DDO, that could have been disasterous for the site because many trolls, votebombers, and mindless idiots would storm DDO and drive it to the ground. 3) Izbo - Ok for real, god knows what he would have done to this site, the first thing he would do is ban half the people who have annoyed him in the past though and from there this website would have been driven into the ground one way or another. The 2 endorsement deal would eliminate some potentially good candidates, however it could eliminate a very large number of ill-informed candidates who spam the forums and their platform for changes to the site could only do a great deal of harm to it. And that would be good for DDO Ill end here for now :)