究竟我們在投甚麼票？What are we actually voting for?

今明後三天都是大選。各同學是以甚麼標準去投定投票給誰呢？是政綱，背景，還是宣傳？
The General Polling is held on today until the day after tomorrow. How will you decide who to vote for? For their platform, background or promotion?

有部份人在說現在有一部份候選人沒有人認識。問題是，我們現在的候選人有多值得大家去認識？
Some said that a number of candidates remains unknown to most. The real problem is, how worthy it is for one to know the candidates?

某些單位的宣傳品上，不論是海報還是電郵，裏面都只有內閣名稱和參選的同學資料。試想一下，如果那些同學全部換做我的話，究竟會不會影響大家對那個內閣的認識？
For some units, their publicity materials only have the name of the cabinet and some personal particulars of the people running for the posts. Imagine that they are all replaced by me. Does it really affect your understanding of the cabinet?

當然不會。實際上，他們無論換成董建華的三屍十一命，還是列寧到戈爾巴喬夫(戈巴卓夫)全體蘇共的國家主席都沒有分別。因為他們缺少了一樣重要的東西—政綱。
Absolutely not; and still no difference when they are replaced by Tung Chee-hwa's whole horde of 3+11 Principal Officials, or by the list of leaders of the Soviet Union from Lenin to Gorbachev, since they missed out something very important: their Platform.

在諮詢大會上派發政綱是一件事；在選舉中令自己的政綱可以為人所知是另一個問題。當諮詢大會的出席人數很少，而且不少只是由一少部份知情者和沒有投票權的老鬼撐場的時候，有沒有政綱又有甚麼分別呢？還是說，有一部份人老愛當同學之間的代言人，去看政綱然後教同學選擇候選人？
Distributing the platform in Campaign Meetings is one thing; to make your platform known in the election is another. When there is so few attending the Campaign Meetings, with most of them being "in the circle" or ex-excos that has no voting right, does having a platform really matter at all? Just in case, are there some students who fills in the job of the spokesperson and tell their subjects to choose their candidate?

當同學不能夠(又或不願意)自己看政綱，而純粹靠外表和老人的指示去選擇時，這又和盲票有甚麼分別？為甚麼不直接叫那些指手劃腳的人出來選？
When students are unable (or just reluctant) to read the platform, and judge only by looks and on the advise of the "elders", is there any difference between it and blind voting? Why don't just tell the elders who wanted to talk so much to run for it themselves?

投沒有政綱的候選人一票就是盲票。
Voting for candidates without any platform is equivalent to Blind Voting.