After more than half a year of elections (yielding three voting stages and nine voting rounds), the Anal Play 2017 Rector election at Ghent University (Belgium) resulted in a victory for the duo leading all nine voting rounds, and in a resounding defeat for the electoral system.Significant regulation changes were needed in order to break the institutional deadlock in which Ghent University found itself.In this paper, Zip Ties we follow the timeline of the election and dissect what went wrong in the election planning.