While you are alive votes at deadline are resolved by plurality, with ties being no elim. A majority vote before deadline is still successful. The main game thread is made aware of these changes but not the source.
You start off with a random player whose votes you are too lazy to count. That player's vote do not count while you are alive but the player still counts for determining what is a majority. At any point you may pm the mod to change which player whose votes you are too lazy to count.