Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

[homelycooking]

I have no way of knowing if the section of CESRA applying to votes ineligibly cast in regional Senate elections applies to solarstorm's case because he deleted his first ballot. No one seems to have a quote or a screenshot of it. CESRA requires me to determine if he "explicitly" cast his original vote in a Senate race for which he is not qualified to vote, which I can't do without access to the original text of his ballot.

[homelycooking]

It's my 1,000th day in office as SoFE, and what better time than now to announce that we'll be having a special election to fill Lumine's seat in the Senate? The following have declared their candidacies, though the deadline for declarations isn't until the end of the day on Wednesday.

Bacon King - The People's Party
Cris - Federalist Party
Maxwell - Democratic-Republican Party
Poirot - independent
rpryor03 - National Party
SomebodyWhoExists - Labor Party

[Senator Cris]

When the election will be held?

[Flake]

When the election will be held?

I assume Friday.

[homelycooking]

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, as usual.

[windjammer]

Hello homely,
Dr Cynic will probably soon retire (GM appointment)
Will the election for his seat be held at the same time?

[homelycooking]

Feedback on the new ballot design? I thought that Teddy's old format needed a makeover.

[Flake]

Feedback on the new ballot design? I thought that Teddy's old format needed a makeover.

I like it better than his design, shorter and more to the point.

[homelycooking]

Bacon King is the winner by an unofficial final-round count of 62-59. Official results to come tomorrow evening.

[Prince of Salem]

Bacon King is the winner by an unofficial final-round count of 62-59. Official results to come tomorrow evening.

My count says 61-60. Well, you've been SoFE for quite a time, sure you'll figure out the actual result and we'll see

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

My count also diverged at some point Saturday night and has been off by one ever since. But I will defer to to homely, though we should try to make sure we get the numbers right.

[Adam Griffin]

I was/am away from home and therefore didn't have my spreadsheet with me, but before I saw homely's numbers I had two estimates (61-58 BK & 62-59 BK), so in either case, I'm fairly confident in SoFE's numbers (or at the very least, that BK won by 3).

[Bacon King]

I can't take the oath until the official certification, right?

[Prince of Salem]

I can't take the oath until the official certification, right?

Right, but be sure to do it right after

[homelycooking]

Sometimes a discrepancy results from counting a ballot immediately after it's posted and not noticing if it's edited 45 seconds later. I'm double checking everything right now - results should be certified in an hour or so.

[homelycooking]

OFFICIAL RESULTS

AT-LARGE SENATOR (to fill one vacancy)

FIRST BALLOT

BACON KING 44 (Flo, Bacon King, Averroes Nix, SawxDem, Yelnoc, Potus2036, AndrewCT, TheCranberry, Velasco, Paul Kemp, Sibboleth, oakvale, Marokai, Grumps, Dr. Cynic, Sirnick, Mr X, morgieb, BaconBacon96, MalaspinaGold, Sjoycefla, BRTD, New Canadaland, Fritz, Afleitch, Ebowed, Lief, polnut, Snowguy, Franzl, Peeperkorn, Torie, Gustaf, ChairmanSanchez, Dallasfan65, Gen. Mung Beans, nclib, benconstine, MaxQue, Duke, Spamage, bgwah, 20RP12, ilikeverin)

CRIS 44 (TJ in Cleve, Anton Kreitzer, SNJ1985, Winfield, Angus, Pessimistic Antineutrino, HagridoftheDeep, Goldwater, Rooney, DC al Fine, Maistre, RR1997, Miles, Celticempire, Gaworth, Cassius, B. Cordeiro, Lumine, Rogue Beaver, PiT, tmthforu, Dereich, Oldiesfreak, cinyc, Cathcon, daveosupremo, murraybannerman, Jack Enderman, Devin, Pingvin, dead0man, FreedomHawk, Sbane, NHI, Thomas D, JCL, Reaganfan, Vosem, Cris, Dixie, ModerateVA, DemPGH, Mattrose, NCYankee)

SOMEBODYWHOEXISTS 18 (Windjammer, Napoleon, Fuzzy, wifikitten, SWE, Barnes, Adam OABB, TDAS04, Gass3268, Progressive Realist, Vega, Bore, Talleyrand, TNF, Alfred Jones, badgate, Hashemite, IceSpear)

POIROT 14 (Spiral, Small L, ElectionsGuy, shua, smoltchanov, outofbox6, JoMCaR, Maxwell, homelycooking, bmotley, Adam Griffin, Kalwejt, Poirot, Hatman)

RPRYOR3 3 (rpryor3, ZuWo, Foucaulf)

SECOND BALLOT

BACON KING 61 (Flo, Bacon King, Averroes Nix, SawxDem, Yelnoc, Potus2036, AndrewCT, TheCranberry, Velasco, Paul Kemp, Sibboleth, oakvale, Marokai, Grumps, Dr. Cynic, Sirnick, Mr X, morgieb, BaconBacon96, MalaspinaGold, Sjoycefla, BRTD, New Canadaland, Fritz, Afleitch, Ebowed, Lief, polnut, Snowguy, Franzl, Peeperkorn, Torie, Gustaf, ChairmanSanchez, Dallasfan65, Gen. Mung Beans, nclib, benconstine, MaxQue, Duke, Spamage, bgwah, 20RP12, ilikeverin, Foucaulf, bmotley, homely, Maxwell, Kalwejt, Gass3268, Bore, Talleyrand, TNF, SWE, Barnes, TDAS04, Progressive Realist, Vega, Alfred Jones, Badgate, Hashemite)

CRIS 60 (TJ in Cleve, Anton Kreitzer, SNJ1985, Winfield, Angus, Pessimistic Antineutrino, HagridoftheDeep, Goldwater, Rooney, DC al Fine, Maistre, RR1997, Miles, Celticempire, Gaworth, Cassius, B. Cordeiro, Lumine, Rogue Beaver, PiT, tmthforu, Dereich, Oldiesfreak, cinyc, Cathcon, daveosupremo, murraybannerman, Jack Enderman, Devin, Pingvin, dead0man, FreedomHawk, Sbane, NHI, Thomas D, JCL, Reaganfan, Vosem, Cris, Dixie, ModerateVA, DemPGH, Mattrose, NCYankee, rpryor3, ZuWo, Poirot, Spiral, ElectionsGuy, outofbox6, Small L, shua, smoltchanov, JoMCaR, Griffin, Windjammer, Adam OABB, Napoleon, Fuzzy, wifikitten)

EXHAUSTED 2 (Hatman, IceSpear)


BACON KING is elected At-Large Senator.

There was a total turnout of 123 votes, with 0 ballot papers being rejected.

I, Homelycooking, Secretary of Federal Elections, declare the above results to be a complete and accurate summary of the votes cast.

[Prince of Salem]

OFFICIAL RESULTS

AT-LARGE SENATOR (to fill one vacancy)

SECOND BALLOT

BACON KING 61

CRIS 60

I, Homelycooking, Secretary of Federal Elections, declare the above results to be a complete and accurate summary of the votes cast.

[homelycooking]

Congratulations.

[windjammer]

So Keaton was the decisive voter of the victory of BK?
Hmmmmm

[Maxwell]

The lords of IRC once again have won an election.

[Bacon King]

So Keaton was the decisive voter of the victory of BK?
Hmmmmm

Strictly speaking, every single one of my voters was decisive

[Hatman 🍁]

Feedback on the new ballot design? I thought that Teddy's old format needed a makeover.

Not wanting to brag, but it was actually my old design

Actually, never mind. My large text ballot is still in use.

[homelycooking]

These candidates have declared for this weekend's At-Large Senate election:

Bacon King (TPP)
JCL (Federalist)
Cris (Federalist)
Polnut (TPP)
Lief (Labor)
SWE (Labor)

Deadline for candidacy declarations is 00:00 Thursday December 11.

[SWE]

I declared in September

I will be a candidate in the next at large senate race

[homelycooking]

Oh, thanks. I didn't recall that anyone had declared so long ago.