This has been a most unusual election! The TownHall admins tried to take over the ToO by forcing me to write a resignation message (though those of you who read it closely might notice that I tried to leave you clues that things were not quite right!) and then gradually took over the board. Things seemed innocent enough when Top added some moderators, but members quickly noticed that all of the new moderators had been admins on the TownHall! Things escalated and a lot of users were jailed for various lengths of time for what the administrators considered to be offenses. A new TH-esque board style replaced the many wonderful options that members used to have. Money was no longer being made for posts and the vault disappeared with the new board theme. Gower's Field was locked, and a lot of other boards had their name changed and/or some threads moved. Top posted a very odd message (even for him) and questions continued to be raised, despite attempts by the new administration to quash them. Then clues started being given by a "Concerned Friend" who contacted Lizzie to help the members of the ToO figure out how to get rid of these unwanted new powerful people and all their increasingly strict rules and regulations. Finally the password to an account that held the key to getting rid of them was revealed, and the day was saved! I hope that everybody had a good time, and thanks for rescuing me from jail! It really isn't that cozy after a while. Thanks to all of you who rebelled against the administration and kept me company in jail.
The moral of the story is that Top is a bad influence on people. 
We are now ready to bring to power the thirteenth administration team, after much waiting and turmoil! After about a month of campaigning, 3 teams emerged with the funds necessary to compete for the administrative crown. An impressive turn-out of 98 votes (including 3 vital absentee votes) were cast in the Thirteenth Town of Odyssey Election.
Highlight below to see the results!
LizzieG and Taq will become the new Mayor and Chief of Police of the Town of Odyssey and took 45 votes (46%) to defeat the other candidates. Tyler and xiao finished second with 44 votes (45%). Regis Blackbeard and Lord Sesshoumaru came in third with 9 votes (9%).
The winners will be appointed to their posts later today and the moderators will be decided in the near future, so keep your eyes open for that announcement! Congratulations to all of the teams involved! Everyone should be proud of what has been accomplished.
This term the election was confused by the evil takeover that The Top Crusader and his fellow TownHall admins attempted, but fortunately, that is all behind us now and our new administration can lead us on to great things! 
Please allow some time for things to change back - there is some clean-up required after the mess that was made of our great town! The ToO that you know and love will gradually re-emerge as boards are renamed and unlocked and a place is created for the TH-related threads to be viewed to relive the fond (and less than fond) memories from the past couple days!Just so you know, the poll thread is located here. This thread was created to easily identify the election results (in the same way we did for past elections) and the poll thread has been subsequently moved to City Hall for archiving.
That took a day...
I knew you wouldn't leave us 
