Well you could take a Setback dice to shoot to wound rather than kill, or just set your weapons to stun (which I think pretty much all of you can do).
And while you can't nominate yourself, if someone else wants to nominate you then I'll permit a little bit of metagaming.
Edit: if one of you wants nominate someone else for leader that's cool. That person will have to make a competitive social/leadership/knowledge: warfare check to determine who wins the election though.
Edited by ColonelCommissar