OP has kindly asked to avoid stating humans.

I have strong memories of building my coal power plant to the sounds of the episode Pegasus

Maybe we should have folks come together say “Hey! This person represents at least a plurality of our approval. Let’s sentence them to spending the next 5 years or so in a rundown palace next to a big clock where their closest neighbors hang out on red pillows all day.”

Since they have the biggest piles of votes we can call the vote gathering days erections, since vote counters will stack ballots on top of each other and the biggest pile wins.