Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24772962-20150928081551/@comment-26047195-20150928151807

No, it's certainly not cheating. Merging polls on votes is merely an implementation of clear logic.

Note the revote on CM's/admins. Choice A was in favor of revoting /only/ those users with rights who had never been voted in through RfR. Choice B was in favor of revoting on /all/ of the CM's and admins, regardless of whether they were already voted in or not. Therefore, choice B /contains/ choice A entirely; the only difference between them is that B favors more than just what choice A favors. You could draw out a venn diagram or some other sort of logical graph if that helps you make more sense of it. The staff merge polls on votes like these because it's only sensible to realize that supporters of choice B are not opposed to choice A and are fully supportive of it, they simply desired additional changes.

And wouldn't you rather be logical and adherent to common sense? I mean, you have a whole policy supporting it. This feels like cheating to ensure that the poll you want isn't threatened by a logical combination of other polls sharing the same desires, which obviously isn't being fair or unbiased. I support vote merging, provided that the admins are doing so logically as they previously have in those two votes you mentioned.