Goddammit. >_<
Wouldn't think I'd be very invested in this vote, and I didn't think she'd get as much support as she did (she had nearly not enough screentime, and most of what we know about her we learned in the last week), but the initial surge gave me hope that I find myself really loathe to part with.
Votes like this aren't really subject to a revote in a foreseeable future. It just doesn't make sense from a narrative perspective to revisit the issue when there are dozens of other things going on that demand our attention. It reduces the importance of the vote, and the pacing of the story doesn't really allow for it. So if Silas doesn't see her attractive, he doesn't, and that is that. The other option is more permissive (perceiving someone as "cute" is not an obligation, although I can see how it is considered a "soft" one), but refusal is pretty final.
The reason I became so... partial to the option is that I managed to persuade myself that Kei and Yuuko could have met Silas before. I can't prove anything though, and it could easily be just me jumping at shadows.
Why does Kei think we've met before? Just another one of his mistaken conjectures on account of constant memory tampering? Why does Yuuko think we are scary? I've seen mice scarier than Sai-kun! It is easily dismissable, but little coincidences like this could pile up. I was hoping this vote would provide a hook that would let us get closer, and find out whether it is just my imagination, or if there is a story behind it. They aren't in our class, they aren't in our club, and they don't live in the neighbourhood, so without some impetus our interaction with them would have to be limited, and I wanted to create such an impetus.
The Drama from Before carried over to the new setting calls out to me! But I suppose that is too frivolous a reasoning to really convince anyone...
