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The new nine

Here's a list of who I consider the more interesting CSM9 candidates who are not CSM8 incumbents. Each of these candidates have either declared publicly or made it reasonably clear that they are running. To declare publicly, I would expect to see a blog post, a post on Jita Park, or the equivalent. For each, I list a very short claim to fame or reason why I think they'll be interesting. The candidates are listed roughly in the order that I expect them to be "serious" candidates with a good shot of winning a seat.

Confirmed as running:

• Manfred Sideous (Pandemic Legion FC)
• Xander Phoena (pod-caster, CSM8 interviewer) 
• Sugar Kyle (low-sec blogger)
• Steve Ronuken (industry, application development)
• Jayne Fillon (themittani.com writer, occasional small-gang PvP)
• Roland Cassidy (CFC, unknown as yet if official CFC candidate)

It's interesting to me how short this list is! We're running way behind where we were the last two years. The Mittani, for instance, declared his CSM6 candidacy on February 7. By this date last year, not only had a couple of dozen people declared candidacies, but on February 16 last year, I was the 15th of them to be interviewed by Xander Phoena. So even with a one week later announcement of the winners, this election season is shaping up to be really quiet.

Last year, the polls opened on April 4. If that's pushed back by one week to account for the push back of Fanfest, that still means we're only 47 days from the opening of the polls for the CSM9 election. Granted, a lot of good, serious candidates waited until late last year to announce themselves -- Ali Aras was one, for instance. She didn't declare herself until March last year. But still, I feel like we should be seeing more potentials than this. I don't know what this means, but it sure is interesting!

This post will be updated as I learn more.

EDIT (16/Feb/2014): Xander Phoena has declared his candidacy on his website.
EDIT (18/Feb/2014): Jayne Fillon has declared his candidacy in Jita Park.
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