User blog comment:NecrusIV/First 40k Fanon Wiki Admin Elections/@comment-8395098-20150203051433/@comment-8395098-20150204025853

But the US Senate can not elect new senators, that is up to the states. So there is a ground for my line of logic. It's also due to the comments below about anstaining, were they purely sarcasm or were the admins there talking about withholding their votes? Also there are nations and ideologies that limit voting rights depending on the situation, the cardinals, not catholics vote for a new pope. In America states elected their representatives for Senate originally, while congress was elected by the people of the state, an idea originally meant to balance the interests of individual states against the popularity contest that was congress. And traditionally the state congress in many states would abstain from voting for members of the congress.