Rio Grande Games 75 manual second phase voting and building, Order of the voting, Election results

The players now place the ballot markers they had placed on their player cards on the areas shown on the cards. They place them face down. A player may stack his ballot markers on top of each other.

The used player cards remain face up in the players’ supply areas until the end of the phase. Thus, a player may not place more ballot markers in areas he has already “used” this game year.

When all players have placed their ballot markers in their selected areas, the round ends and another begins. Players again select cards and ballot markers for new areas.

If a player uses all of his 7 ballot markers before all the rounds in the phase are complete, he simply sits out the later rounds, choosing no cards and no ballot markers.

After the players have played 3 (with 4 players) or 4 (with 3 players) rounds, the first phase ends and the second begins.

second phase: voting and building

If a player has ballot markers left in his supply at the beginning of phase two, he may not use them in the remainder of this game year.

Order of the voting

At the beginning of this phase, one set of voting order cards is face up and the other is face down. The areas will vote in the order shown on the face up cards from left to right. Thus, the first vote is in the area shown by the left-most face up card.

example:

The first area to vote is Cannaregio

When an area has finished voting, the voting order card for that area is set aside. Then, the next face down card in the other set of voting order cards is turned face up.

Thus, the players will always know the order of the next 7 areas to vote.

example:

The next election is in the Castello district. The first card in the next set shows all players that the first area to vote in the next game year is Dorsoduro.

Then, the election is resolved in the area shown on the next card (to the right) in the current voting order set. This continues until 7 areas have held elections in this game year (all voting order cards in the set will have been used).

Now shuffle the used voting order cards and place them face down on the appropriate empty spaces along the bottom of the board.

Election results

In the area where the election is being held, turn all ballot markers face up. Each player sums his ballot markers. The player with the highest sum is the winner, and the player with the second highest sum is the runner-up.

If a player has only his value 0 ballot marker in the area, he is considered to have no ballot markers in the area. Thus, he cannot be the winner or the runner-up.

example:

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Claudia (red) wins the election with 4 votes, Daniel (blue) although second in the area, is not the runner-up as he has only his 0 ballot marker in the area. There is no runner-up in this area.

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