Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

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Another great job, Homely

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Andrew, SJoyce, and Marokai have each won endorsements from the Liberal Party.

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Aw, endorsements aren't included on the ballot this time?

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Don't do it.

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I don't think resignation would actually solve the problem. If I may make a suggestion, homely, perhaps you should author legislation to be introduced in the Senate that allows the SoFE the leeway to close the voting booth and reopen a new, corrected one so that all voters have a chance to recast their ballots? Perhaps allow you a maximum of twelve hours after the start of the election to make any change?

There is already legislation pending in the Senate queue that would do just that, actually.

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I will also not vote to impeach if it comes up.

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I think Carl said he wasn't running for Senate anymore, didn't he?  But it'd probably be best to double check on that.

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Who is Carl?

20RP12.

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Wolfentoad, that is totally not an OK way to ever talk to anyone.

^ Seriously.

I was joking. GAWD.

Yeah it's really nothing to joke about because some of us have been there, whether it be that we've been told to kill ourselves or have actually attempted it, it's not okay man. Telling somebody to end their life is not a joke. I've got a pretty warped sense of humour, but that's where I draw the line. Not okay man.

Every time I see a post of yours, I assume it's Pingvin's now...

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Wolfentoad, that is totally not an OK way to ever talk to anyone.

^ Seriously.

I was joking. GAWD.

Yeah it's really nothing to joke about because some of us have been there, whether it be that we've been told to kill ourselves or have actually attempted it, it's not okay man. Telling somebody to end their life is not a joke. I've got a pretty warped sense of humour, but that's where I draw the line. Not okay man.

Fine, I'll resign from my seat later today. I'll make the official announcement in a few hours. Bye.

What!?

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so we have over slightly half of the votes in, how much more time left?

Twenty three and a half hours.

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Help! I seem to have accidentally deleted my ballot.

How did you do that?  I don't think you can vote again..

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The Northeast Senate race had more candidates than we thought it would.

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INVALID 2 (DC al Fine, John Engle)

HOW DARE YOU INVALIDATE A VOTE FOR JOHN?!

I'm suing.  I may not agree with my gubernatorial opponent on all the issues, but this is pure blasphemy.

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I just remembered something.  Not too long ago we had a series of ballot initiatives, some of which got enough signatures to get on the ballot, IIRC.  What happened to those?

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Hey, Scott managed to translate this.

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Sorry, I should have said this in my office thread and referred to it in my vote count: that vote was not counted.  It is illegal under the Official Language Act.

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We need secret ballot elections. I hate how in every election people are trying to strategically alter votes in some way.

How can that be accomplished, though?  If the ballots are completely secret, there's no way to ensure that they're being counted fairly and accurately.

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We need secret ballot elections. I hate how in every election people are trying to strategically alter votes in some way.

How can that be accomplished, though?  If the ballots are completely secret, there's no way to ensure that they're being counted fairly and accurately.

^^^

Secret ballot voting sounds great in theory, but there are far too many potential issues with such a practice in a game like Atlasia to make it a reality.

These elections are as open and fair as I think we can realistically get in this game, while still keeping it enjoyable.

I think we should at least discuss it. One idea I just had was two-step validation when you cast your vote. An example would be have people vote on a Google Poll then messaging the SOFE (and another indicated person) to validate your vote.

I'm sure there are other ideas on how to accomplish this as well.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a secret ballot process.  I just don't think it's tenable.

How would this validation process work, exactly?  I've never used Google Polls before.

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Yeah, that would be very problematic to carry out.  Don't forget that you can only send so many PMs at a time, as well, so you'd have to start days - possibly weeks - ahead of the election, unless you get an entire team of folks to send the PMs.  But then that would defeat the purpose and the whole system would just be unworkable.

Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with what we got.  If I'm proven wrong someday, then great.