Election Coverage

[Donerail]

Something that might become an issue - does the phrase "No citizens who register after the commencement of the election may be eligible to vote in it" refer to the scheduled or actual commencement of the election? There's a number of voters who registered after the legal scheduled commencement (midnight last night) but before the election itself commenced (the voting booth was opened).

Regardless, afleitch never registered in the sign-in thread, so there should only be one vote for the Free Alliance.

[Donerail]

Results for Parliament (Last Voter: Clarence)
CONSERVATIVE: 19
SOCIAL LIBERALS: 13
SOCIALIST: 13
WORKERS': 5
PIONEERS: 4
FREE ALLIANCE: 2
WHIG: 2

Seat Projections (Calculator)
CONSERVATIVE: 8
SOCIAL LIBERALS: 5
SOCIALIST: 5
WORKERS': 2
PIONEERS: 1
FREE ALLIANCE: 0
WHIG: 0

Counting all voters.

Turnout Among Registered Voters: 98%

I have a question how many votes do you need to get a seat in parliament for the party??

At least three right now, but that depends on turnout.

[Donerail]

The following individuals made some kind of post in the Mock Parliment sub-board during the year 2015, but have not registered in the sign-up thread: Afleitch, NYMillennial, Retromike, Bacon King, Lumine, Jerryarkansas, Morgieb, Jack Enderman, Kalwejt, and Politicus.

While some of these people have switched full-time to AAD since then, some may still vote in this election. I would suggest simply grandfathering all of these individuals into the voter rolls, and requiring all future voters (after the conclusion of this election) to register in the sign-up thread.

[Donerail]

The following individuals made some kind of post in the Mock Parliment sub-board during the year 2015, but have not registered in the sign-up thread: Afleitch, NYMillennial, Retromike, Bacon King, Lumine, Jerryarkansas, Morgieb, Jack Enderman, Kalwejt, and Politicus.

While some of these people have switched full-time to AAD since then, some may still vote in this election. I would suggest simply grandfathering all of these individuals into the voter rolls, and requiring all future voters (after the conclusion of this election) to register in the sign-up thread.

For what is worth, despite initially posting I don't consider myself a part of the Mock Parliament nor do I have plans to participate in the near future. While my case may be very particular, I personally think taking all those early posts for granted as full voters is not necessarily a good idea if people took the trouble to open another thread for formal sign-up (and I believe that was made clear enough).

Indeed, but it's difficult to come up with a non-subjective standard that would include people like afleitch (who didn't post in the formal sign-up thread but who was very involved in the original process). Ideally, most of those people won't vote, so it won't be much of an issue.