One note: In the prior forum, polling results were cache-linked (if you cleared your cookies, you could vote again).  If a fam is legitimately supposed to use the fam forum poll for policy, the votes should be linked to empires or forum accounts instead.

I used to remember one fam where, after the voting period would come near the end, the leader used to put a ton of votes on one side so as to make the vote look like a consensus vote... so yeah, it sort of imbalanced things