I will say that Herm's claim was 1000% aided by his election as leader and the claim that he made of BP from it. That complicated things and took away JC's ability to hammer him, Badger's ability to shoot him, Rob's ability to shoot him, and the Cult's ability to scratch him. He'd have had to be lynched if we believed his claim from the election, and as a result he really just moved to the back of everyone's mind. It made it easier to just assume he was actually miller.

I also never thought to look back at the election votes to see if Herm's scum buddies actually led that. That whole part of the game sort of just faded out of mind after the first couple of days.