The method of voting determined the outcome. With simultaneous signatures and voting, excluding the Sanjia Tribe, who chose not to participate, the stark result of ten to zero attested to the unique and skillful manipulation Komer exercised over the new alliance.
Although there had been continuous cursing and vows to resist to the end before, when that "sacred" vote was placed in the hands of these chiefs, for the first time they all felt the grave responsibility it carried.
