Talk Elections

Atlasia is a political/governmental simulation wherein participants take part in elections and referenda which shape the nature and laws of the nation. Atlasia operates as a federal state with five regions. The federal government has three branches: executive (President and Cabinet); legislative (Senate); and judicial (Supreme Court). Elections to the Presidency, Senate, and regional offices are held at regular intervals.


Citizens of each region can participate in the regional government either as elected representatives such as the Governor or simply as proposers of legislation at the regional level. Each region has developed their own constitutions which set out their system of government. Below is an image of each region and the states they contain.*



Numerous parties exist in Atlasia encompassing a wide range of ideological positions. Many parties have a leadership, organise a platform and put forward and endorse candidates for elections. A brief summary of the ideology of the major parties is provided in the post below. There are also numerous Independents in Atlasia who act outside of any party structure.

Alternatively, if you do not see a Party that you find yourself on common ground with, why not start one on your own? There are no special measures one needs to go through to accomplish this, simply open a thread, hammer out an ideology and get recruiting!


Registration requirements have changed as of the passage of the last Constitutional Amendment.

To join Atlasia, you must register in the Registration Thread located here. (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=34355.0) Simply state your name, the party you wish to register with, and preferred state of residence in that order. You may register in anyone of the 50 real life states, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Here's an example:


You can register at any time; however, there are rules in place limiting rights to vote to those who have reached a total post count on the forum of 75 and have registered more than 7 days prior to the election. Additionally, your account must be at least 15 days old before joining.

You may only change your state of registration when moving to another region every 180 days but you may change your party at anytime and your state registration may be changed when moving within the same region once a month. After your initial registration, you are allowed to make one "free move" to anywhere, which does not count under the 180 days rule during the first week, however, after this you are not allowed to move for the required time.


When first joining, occasionally some of you may be confused as to what the different boards are. The board structure looks something like this (as of November 1st, 2010):


Atlas Fantasy Elections is the most important board and the board you will most likely end up spending most of your time on. It covers all miscellaneous chat between citizens, who post threads such as political party headquarters, conventions, newspapers, offices for politicians, and so on. Feel free to introduce yourself here in this thread, or create a thread introducing yourself on your own. :)
      
      Child Board: The Voting Booth is where Governors, Lt. Governors, party leaders, and the Secretary of Forum Affairs open voting booths for citizens to vote on important matters relating to national or regional office and ballot initiatives, and sometimes as trivial as voting on political party platform planks.

Atlas Fantasy Government is where business of the government is done. The White House, certain political offices, and court cases are all handled here, but most of all, is Senate business. It's advised you don't post here unless you're personally championing an issue, as it's rather impolite to interrupt the Senate's work.

      Child Board: The Constitutional Convention board is a temporary one that debate the changing of Atlasia's system of government. It is now a defunct board.

      Child Board: The Regional Governments board is a recently instituted board that allows regional governments to gather in one centralized location to do their business unencumbered by other unrelated threads. Regions centralized their legislatures and executive offices here to do their business quietly and more efficiently.

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Some of you may wonder where you can find some more detailed information about Atlasia. As for laws, the Statute on the Wiki provides a long list of every law ever passed (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Statute) by the Senate.

Depending on where you take residence, you will have your own Regional Constitution:


I'm sure you want to know who holds which offices, it makes it easier to get in contact with important people! This is a list of all office-holders, (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Office_Holders) and it is updated regularly.

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If you want to learn more about Atlasia, you can explore the Atlas Wiki (located here (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Main_Page)) or on the toolbar above via the () button, which stores the Atlasian and regional Constitutions and laws, as well as information on current office holders and some details about many of the current (and past) participants in Atlasia.

Also, you should feel free to post any questions you have about Atlasia in this thread and someone should shortly be able to provide some guidance.

There is also an old Introduction to Atlasia thread, but it is horrendously outdated. You can locate it here (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=59581.0), if you're interested.

Below are a list of the four major political parties in Atlasia, party logos (if available), party summaries (provided by the individual Chairmen), and the Wiki links to that party's page, as well as other miscellaneous information. Hopefully this will serve as an easy way for newcomers to Atlasia to learn more about those involved in the process, and have an easier time to join others like them!

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Jesus Christ Party (JCP), 36 Members

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Chairman: Bgwah

A coalition of liberals and economic centrists, the Jesus Christ Party is the largest party in Atlasia. Founded in 2004, it is the oldest party in Atlasia and is especially strong in the Pacific Region, although it has many members across the country. The premiere left-wing party, the JCP places special emphasis on it's social liberalism and civil libertarianism which is almost universally supported among the party rank and file.

As evidenced by the JCP's left-leaning members, the name is indeed, simply a parody.

For more information on the Jesus Christ Party, check out the JCP Wiki Page. (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Jesus_Christ_Party)

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Union of the Democratic Left (UDL), 28 Members

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Chairman: Polnut

Summary.

For more information on the Union of the Democratic Left, check out the UDL Wiki Page. (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/UDL)

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I encourage all Party Chairmen to contact me with summaries (100 words or less) for their political parties, and for new parties with over five members to contact me via Personal Message for a spot on the list. Parties with no Chairman will not be included on the list.

(Reserved for future possible use.)

If a moderator of this board could dispose of the old thread and sticky this one, that would be appreciated, and feel free to offer advice or suggest anything I may have left out. :)

June 8 Edit: I updated the main introduction post with links to the Constitution and all regional constitutions, the officeholders list, a link to the Statute, reorganized the layout a bit, and updated party member numbers in accordance with the Department of Forum Affairs.

July 23 Edit: Updated numbers according to the Department of Forum Affairs and removed the Horse party from the list. RPP logo added since Swedish's logo is the apparent winner in the vote that was held.

August 26 Edit: Updated the registration requirements to meet the Intelligent Voting Amendment.

August 27 Edit: Updated party member numbers and the new chairman of the RPP.

Being a the Atlas Forum for about a year now, I just have one question. Where and when do we vote?

     The "Voting Booth" child board. Elections generally occur towards the end of even-numbered months, though amendments are voted on irregularly.

Ok thanks.

This may be a stupid question, but where do you register to vote?

here: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=34355.0 :)

A non-zombie newbie!

WOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks :)

Could we get an update on party numbers in this thread? (they have changed a lot)

I've also always wondered who wrote the caption for my party, because I sure as hell didn't

The LNF has more chairman than any other party, they should definitely be on the list.

     I wrote it while you were missing.

Our chairman is Duke, please update.

Sheesh, hold your horses. :P

Just reminding you.

Name update, please :)

Updated and I slightly altered your summary to reflect that. I had to remove your image though, since it doesn't match anymore. A new logo and a new summary, as well as a new wiki page, is in order.

I've been trying to update stuff in the wiki. Hopefully others help out. And thanks

Why is the LNF not present?

The article is misleading, the party wasn't originally the Regional Protection Party, it was originally the Southern Secessionist Party

It might be a good idea to add my Atlasian Political Matrix chart here, to give people an idea of where the parties stand! :)

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     Probably a good opportunity to update it. ;)

I would be willing to supply information to develop a better and more interactive version, possibly one that can be updated with each registration.

I actually did just spend a couple hours (took way longer than I expected!! :() updating it. I had 100 voters on it, and also did regional breakdowns. Computer crashed, unfortunately, and I'm definitely not going to compile all of that data again.

How did you make it?


I'm mad that I'm not on there.

I made it in Excel. You were on the new version... :(

I already have a list of every active voter... How do I make the table? :P

It's complicated. When you make a graph/chart, you have to go into Source Data > Series and tell it what data to use for X and Y.

The graph part wasn't terribly time consuming this time, though, since I had already figured it out (it took me a while the first time though). Gathering all of the data was the difficult part.

Don't worry, I'll redo it after the election... That way every voter's PM score will be in one convenient thread for me.

The LNF and ARC should be on the list.

Marokai, we need to fix RPP Chair! :)

I fixed up a bunch of things so hopefully Xahar won't complain anymore. :P

Our abbreviation is not DA!

Lol, good catch. Give me a summary too, at least.

Thanks, but we may need to change the name back to RPP later. :)

The Leipist National Front is, broadly speaking, the party of the interesting left. Unlike other national fronts worldwide, the LNF is opposed to fascist ideals. In general, it feels that the game is not as big a deal as it is made out to be, but feels that it is fun anyhow; therefore, it supports reform to make the game more fun. The LNF is built on the principle of equality; every member is Chair.

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The ARC should be included; I believe it is a major party.

No, we should wait on that one. Let's see if the ARC is around in a month, and if it is, add it. It took a few months for the LNF to get their section, after all.

The ARC is a major party. As such, it ought to have a section.

When the SoFA lists it as a major party, I will list it as a major party.


Just let me know when.

Well, If Marokai and Lief deem it neccessary. I support the ARC's right to eventually have it, but I didn't want to harass Marokai anymore about the board.

The SoFA's approval is unnecessary. At this moment, the ARC is a major party.

My suit stands.

No, it is quite necessary. Your definition of major party is, with all due respect, completely freaking meaningless to me. I will not be listing every single minor party some Tom, Dick, or Harry decides to create unless it has enough members to be declared worth listing by the SoFA.

A major party is any party with 5 or more members. That's Constitutionally defined.

At any rate, it doesn't matter, as you haven't got the authority to maintain this.

I'm not editing this thread in any official capacity.

In that case, the Government is in dereliction of its duties.

I suggest that now you put the ARC on there, and give the LNF its flag. :)

We are winning, so far :)

Is there a list of registered voters?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=106864.msg2284959#msg2284959 (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=106864.msg2284959#msg2284959)

Proposal to save space at the top of this forum:

A new Intro thread be started with more links and information. It should also contain the terms of service (hence merging with that thread)

Is this going to be updated? I think we have three new parties to add.

Where are the Populares?

SDP too, please.

I noticed that, despite going through the proper channels, the POP has not yet been listed as a major party. We meet the criteria, and I PM'ed Marokai like he recommends in the second or third post, but nothing has been done.

I also noticed that the SDP and possibly AASP (Not sure how many members they have now) are missing.

I've said this before, if people would listen. My job is not to count members on my own, that is the SoFA's job. Since Franzl has posted a new list of members and included a general partisan breakdown, at least there's something to go on, and I'll try to take a look at that once it's finalized.

I have no problem with listing parties when they deserve to be listed, rest assured.

Under the Introduction to Atlasia Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Introduction_to_Atlasia_Act), as amended by the Xahar Complains Too Much Act (https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Xahar_Complains_Too_Much_Act), if the SoFA declares a party to be major, then the President or whomever he has designated as keeper of this thread has absolutely no choice but to add that party's statement to it.  If that party isn't added, it could sue for a writ of mandamus in the Atlasian Supreme Court to force the President or his designee to add it- and should easily win that lawsuit.  The law is pretty clear - "the President shall post short statements from each of the parties..."  

Wait... that means theorically Marokai is forced to make a presentation of both the ARC and The Populares (since they are deemed as two different parties) ? ???

No, they are one party, formerly known as the ARC, but now known as the Populares.

Working on an update now, children.

If someone from the POP and the SDP could PM me a short summary of their party by the way, that'd be great. Very short, please.

Okay now, I need a few things from people.

First, does anyone dispute my numbers? They're based on the DoFA and the Wiki, so correct me based on something if they're not accurate in your opinion.

Secondly, I need summaries, logos, and updated wiki pages. Everyone complains at me to update this thread, well, you guys need to do your homework and give me the information and links necessary to actually do that.

The SDP need to revamp it's wiki page, or create a new one, The Populares need to change their wiki page so it doesn't look like the ARC wiki page, the SDP needs to give me a logo of some sort, and both parties need to give me summaries of their party, from their chairmen, 100 words or less. Furthermore, I need clarification from the RPP/PCP. What are you guys called these days and what is your color, and do you have a logo or not?

For all the clamoring to update this thread, I have literally almost no information to go on outside of membership numbers. Only the POP has provided something, a logo, and I thank Mint for being the only cooperative one.

So guys, snap to it, and I'll update when you guys give me information.

Mint (NE)
Einzige (ME)
Libertas (NE)
Lahbas (NE)
Winston Disraeli (NE)
sirnick (NE)
FallenMorgan (NE)
Dallasfan65 (NE)
azmagic (NE)
silent spade07 (NE)
Vane (NE)
JamesS (ME)
segwaystyle2012 (NE)
RosettaStoned (ME)
true liberty (NE)
SvenssonRS (MW)
The Last Moderate (NE)
SPC (SE)
JBrase (SE)
ARescan (ME)
Redcommander (NE)
Giovanni (NE)

That is 22 Populares.

Done. But it may make the other numbers inaccurate. I should state I'm under no obligation to correct those numbers unless the SoFA puts it on his list, but I will anyway this once. They'll clearly need a little tinkering, but they're more accurate than they previously were, at the very least.

Thank you very much, and sorry for causing unnecessary trouble. Hope you can forgive me. :(

SDP members:

Al
Doctor Cynic
Hans-Im-Gluck
Kalwejt (Undersecretary)
Ogis
Sewer Socialist
Xahar (Secretary General)

Hmm, the RPP is much larger than I thought. Interestingly, the combined Atlasian right would actually be larger than the JCP.

Of course, the RPP turnout machine is probably not what it used to be and a RPP/POP alliance would produce some defectors. Still, it is interesting to note.

Actually, many of those members are inactive/got expelled. The RPP convention states they have 30 members, some of them like downwiththeleft are nowhere to be seen. I'd say we are relatively equal in size, with the Populares being much more active (we've had 18 members show up for our convention).

Yes, I wasn't sure if those expulsions were reflected or not. That does make much more sense.

I am rather enjoying the DA's spot in this situation.

Is it legal to be a member of a multitude of parties?

And, just out of curiosity...how do you switch parties?

Post in the New Register Thread again with your desired party.

Thanks. But...is it legal to be a member of more than one Atlasian party?

Not that I know of, no.

To my knowledge their was never any vote removing our old logo as the logo of the party. Your interpretation that the name change vote of October as having done that is incorrect. So I insist that you put our logo back in there before we get very very angry with you and send you a letter expressing how angry we are.

Failure to comply with our simple and generous request in the next 24 hours, shall result in an immediate state of war between our two nations. The burden of the decision is on you.

At exactly Noon on April 4th, 2010 Easter Sunday, His Imperial Highness Tsar Yankee I, rode out to his troops on horseback to give a speech, carrying in hand a Declaration of War, signed unanimously by the Imperial Council and passed 682-2 by the Imperial Duma, and officially announcing the commencement of hostililties against the regime of Communists, anarchists and radicals led by Marokai Blue. The vote of the Imperial Duma included wide support from the not only  the Imperialist parties and the moderately conservative Octoberists but also the Liberal Kadets and the Socialist Revolutionaries leaving only a small number of Radical SR's, Mensheviks, and Bolsheviks to oppose it (all but two boycotted the vote). The troops respond with rapture and His Imperial Highness, issues officially, the order for a General Mobilization against the Motherland's enemy.


A nice hybrid of Russian and German historical facts from Pre WW1, if I dare say so myself. :P  

Imperial Duma? Your reign has been tarnished, your connection with the people blocked by intermediaries!

I fear a revolt from the serfs is brewing! ;)

It gets worse, the Socialist Revolutionaries now control a plurality.

We know longer have serfs, such an uncivilized practice. We now have sla...err...wage labor. :P

You mean you actually pay the little devils! How socialist of you!

Indeed, I have also been forced to allow Unions, damn those SR's.

Dear god man! You need to hold a few purges! I'll help! ;D

I have bigger fish to fry and I would rather they get a little taste of what they wanted, then be terrorizing the streets holding strikes and marches. After all what is Equality before the law, Freedom of Religion and a few other minor changes, I still keep the right to censor the presses, have an upper house which is decidedly more Conservative, a Strong Military with broad political support (Even the SR's are Pro-Military, they are usually suckers for that Nationalism thing. see WW1) and a fastly industrializing economy. (I may be nuts, but I am not crazy enough to end up like Nicholas II).

I'm not obligated to go on information hunts on your command, Yankee. Give me the logo, the proper name, and proper color. It's that easy. I couldn't done it a long time ago if you didn't just demand I do something.

I have said this before to everyone and I will say it again. If you want me to update something, you must tell me what you want me to update, how, and where the necessary information is. People whined and demanded I include the SDP and the Populares for ages, and once I did, I quickly got no information whatsoever. You guys have to give me something, here.

I no longer have the logo, and you removed it WITHOUT any directive from me, or my predecesor Duke. You go find the damn thing, if you had practiced what you preeched here the problem wouldn't exist. Damn, you can't trust no one around this damn place. 

You are not being fair in your complaints. I didn't delete it on a whim, I deleted it because y'all changed your name and the logo had a different party name on it so it made no sense to maintain it. If you guys changed your name back there's no way I could've anticipated that, and if you want me to replace the empty spot with your old logo, you have to give it to me or tell me where to find it.

I'm not some sort of Atlasian wizard.

lol

First off, anyone with a brain should have realized that there was no hint of permenence to that name.

Second off, you claim to be by request only, so you should have left it there untill we came up with another, especially considering that we basically begun to use RPP unofficially again after Hamilton finally left and I managed to seize power.

Third off, neither the PCP nor the RPP is our official name. But since you aren't by request only I shall leave it up to you to find that out as well.

Fourth, I haven't the slightest idea where to find it now, you lost it, you find the damn thing.

Why do you fight?

As I made the logo, I still have it on my computer. Give me five seconds and I'll upload it for you again.

Damn you, I was having fun dragging him by his feet accross the hot coals. :P

Sorry, didn't mean to spoil your fun ;)

Either way here's the logo.

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They're now filed under campaign banners, so you know where to find them the next time ;)

Thank you Swedish.

Good Lord.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=80405.msg2068770#msg2068770

See, I told you, I no longer had it. :P


Thanks SC.

I shall endevour to find something else to harass MB about. Its so entertaining.

I'm thinking of running through and counting up members for another small update at some point this week. If any leaders want to submit summaries or anything at all, let me know before Friday. Also, to NCY, if there is any name change I should note, say so. :P

Actually, there is, but it doesn't effect the Introduction thread. :P


Isn't that just lol. You will see what I mean in very soon. ;D

If you want some numbers before I get the list posted, here they are:

JCP: 48
POP: 35
RPP: 25
DA: 16
SDP: 8
Other: 19
Independent: 12

What is the numbers for other?

Those are parties with less than 5 members.  I'm doing that because the Constitution states those are not organized parties.  The LNF and Anti-Squares each have three, most of the rest are single member.

You're a saint.

Where is Atlasia 1.0?

Well technically our numbers are deflated due to a round of purges Otherwise we would be around 30 or more not 25. Of course it hardly matters because those people didn't and don't vote.

It would mean a great deal to me if the Populares and the SDP could give me a summary and/or logo. :P

What happened to the party logo we had that you removed?

Link died. Didn't save an image of it myself so there's quite little I can do about that.

The link died? Strange, it's hosted on Atlas and still works perfectly fine for me... (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=2535)

I can try again. For some reason it wouldn't appear for me at all.

Works fine now. Weird, I guess.

If you can contact Mint, though, a summary would be splendid.

As a newly announced candidate, I have two questions:
How do you campaign?
How do you make bumper stickers ie: "Re-elect Fritz/Kaljwet!", or anything like that?

You create a campaign thread. Then in the thread you make speeches, hold Townhalls, etc.


You have to get someone with the right software to make a bumper sticker/banner. You can use paint and then upload it with Image shack/photobucket but that won't be of as high a quality. Tmth makes some pretty good campaign paraphernalia.

While this is bumped, I updated the party numbers, added the Dixiecrats, and replaced the link to the Constitution since we passed a new one.

RPP has new logos.

1. The outcome of the current vote is critical before any change.


2. Putting more then one logo in the introduction thread is excessive and stupid.

Don't tempt me. :P

You can add the UDL now :D

...Do we have one?

I plan on adding the UDL of course but adding the UDL without an official logo, chairman, or party summary wouldn't be of much help to newbies. :P

Now we have a chairman. (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=129077.msg2749811#msg2749811) ;)

And now even a logo. :P

The UDL really should be added.

As for the summary, you are actually the one who should write it since you founded the party. :)