Rio Grande Games Doge 75 - Manual (Page 7)

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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:
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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