Even if the small council is chosen, how would you pick the members to participate? I think that's an even bigger problem that needs to be addressed. As someone who will not be on the council, this is a big concern. I suppose you could use the one the people voted on, but some deem that invalid, due to slight tampering.
I did not say I view every member as competent. Simply that if this council was good enough to vote on bijuu matters then it is good enough to vote on council ones.
I believe there is one day left or so.
To explain how this would go down:
Essentially, if you voted against this or chose to stay impartial to it it would essentially mean that:
Your willed number is the current 22(I think) and your member list is the current one or that you don't care. As such, if this does get passed in means of cut-down having the majority, the majority of those that voted for such will be the majority out of those that voted for the cut-down. Essentially a poll within a poll. Referring to the masses was a mistake to begin with, a third of the people that voted back then did not even know enough candidates to compose a full list while others just wanted their friends to make it.
Bottom line, if you did not want the cut-down to begin with or chose to stay impartial to it, you are not entitled to deciding who will compose the list you opposed creating to begin with.
So far:
Cut-down
Yes-5
No-2
Impartial-1
1/5 did not state number. 4/5 agreed with 9.
2/5 did not establish or support a listing. 3/5 agreed to my list.
As such, if it were to end right here and now, the result would be my list of 9. I suppose that if enough complain about the actual listing being integrated in the same poll, we'd have to scrap the election part out. However, at this point, even if I am to consider that the 2 that did not establish or show support for a list do not agree with mine, my list still has the majority of 3/5.
How about this? If the number of supporters of a particular list does not surpass the number of no-cut-down votes, we'll just decide on who the members shall be later on. I think it's more than fair this way.
Edit:
So essentially, if you wanted to go the worst way possible, the polling in regards to my list would be something like:
2-no(supporting current list)
3-impartial
3-supporters