Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

[homelycooking]

There will be a special election at this time next week to elect an At-Large Senator to replace Lief, who resigned a few days ago. Prospective candidates have until Wednesday night to declare.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

There will be a special election at this time next week to elect an At-Large Senator to replace Lief, who resigned a few days ago. Prospective candidates have until Wednesday night to declare.

First to declare!

[homelycooking]

OFFICIAL RESULTS
SPECIAL SENATE ELECTION OF JULY 2015  

FIRST BALLOT

KALWEJT 38 (Hifly, Kalwejt, Antonio, New Canadaland, jdb Mr X, Velasco, Cranberry, Murica, TNF, Barnes, Vega, Snowguy, TDAS04, Badger, Ebsy, Fritz, Blair, Arturo Belano, Torie, Prog Real, SWE, Njall, Ebowed, MaxQue, Marokai Blue, DemPGH, Mr Illini, Clyde1998, Malaspina, Bacon King, Bore, Windjammer, Castro, BaconBacon, morgieb, DimpledChad, Adam Griffin, Fuzzy)

DKROLGA 29 (IndyRep, Reaganfan, Anton Kreitzer, Cathcon, Jbrase, Maxwell, Oldiesfreak, dkrolga, JonathanSwift, Wulfric, RGN, Leinad, Cris, Sanchez, Lumine, JoMCaR, PiT, Potus2036, rpryor, RogueBeaver, JCL, Autumn Leaf, Moderate VA, bronz, TJ in Cleve, Dereich, PGP, NCYankee, NHI)

HARRY S TRUMAN 16 (Turkisblau, Hatman, Oakvale, vivaportugalhabs, Harry S Truman, Sjoyce, Peeperkorn, benconstine, Flo, darthebear, Simfan34, polnut, MATTROSE, Spamage, SawxDem, TexasGurl)

POIROT 15 (a Person, Small L, bmotley, shua, cinyc, Averroes, smoltchanov, homely, Winfield, twistory, Pikachu, Spiral, Jack Enderman, Poirot, Gekkonidae)

INVALID 1 (ZuWo)

SECOND BALLOT - elimination of Poirot

KALWEJT 38 (Hifly, Kalwejt, Antonio, New Canadaland, jdb Mr X, Velasco, Cranberry, Murica, TNF, Barnes, Vega, Snowguy, TDAS04, Badger, Ebsy, Fritz, Blair, Arturo Belano, Torie, Prog Real, SWE, Njall, Ebowed, MaxQue, Marokai Blue, DemPGH, Mr Illini, Clyde1998, Malaspina, Bacon King, Bore, Windjammer, Castro, BaconBacon, morgieb, DimpledChad, Adam Griffin, Fuzzy)

DKROLGA 38 (IndyRep, Reaganfan, Anton Kreitzer, Cathcon, Jbrase, Maxwell, Oldiesfreak, dkrolga, JonathanSwift, Wulfric, RGN, Leinad, Cris, Sanchez, Lumine, JoMCaR, PiT, Potus2036, rpryor, RogueBeaver, JCL, Autumn Leaf, Moderate VA, bronz, TJ in Cleve, Dereich, PGP, NCYankee, NHI, Small L, bmotley, shua, cinyc, smoltchanov, twistory, Spiral, Jack Enderman, Poirot)

HARRY S TRUMAN 22 (Turkisblau, Hatman, Oakvale, vivaportugalhabs, Harry S Truman, Sjoyce, Peeperkorn, benconstine, Flo, darthebear, Simfan34, polnut, MATTROSE, Spamage, SawxDem, TexasGurl, a Person, Averroes, homely, Winfield, Pikachu, Gekkonidae)

INVALID 1 (ZuWo)

THIRD BALLOT - elimination of Harry S Truman

KALWEJT 51 (Hifly, Kalwejt, Antonio, New Canadaland, jdb Mr X, Velasco, Cranberry, Murica, TNF, Barnes, Vega, Snowguy, TDAS04, Badger, Ebsy, Fritz, Blair, Arturo Belano, Torie, Prog Real, SWE, Njall, Ebowed, MaxQue, Marokai Blue, DemPGH, Mr Illini, Clyde1998, Malaspina, Bacon King, Bore, Windjammer, Castro, BaconBacon, morgieb, DimpledChad, Adam Griffin, Fuzzy, a Person, Averroes, homely, Turkisblau, Hatman, vivaportugalhabs, Harry S Truman, Sjoyce, Peeperkorn, Flo, darthebear, polnut, SawxDem)

DKROLGA 46 (IndyRep, Reaganfan, Anton Kreitzer, Cathcon, Jbrase, Maxwell, Oldiesfreak, dkrolga, JonathanSwift, Wulfric, RGN, Leinad, Cris, Sanchez, Lumine, JoMCaR, PiT, Potus2036, rpryor, RogueBeaver, JCL, Autumn Leaf, Moderate VA, bronz, TJ in Cleve, Dereich, PGP, NCYankee, NHI, Small L, bmotley, shua, cinyc, smoltchanov, twistory, Spiral, Jack Enderman, Poirot, Winfield, Pikachu, Gekkonidae, Oakvale, Simfan34, MATTROSE, Spamage, TexasGurl)

EXHAUSTED 1 (Benconstine)

INVALID 1 (ZuWo)


KALWEJT is elected At-Large Senator.

There was a total turnout of 99 voters, with 1 ballot paper being rejected.

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

[Classic Conservative]

Why was ZuWos invalid may I ask??

[homelycooking]

He didn't meet the activity requirement of 10 posts in the past 8 weeks.

[Maxwell]

I had expected and kind of hoped Truman would do better.

[Classic Conservative]

He didn't meet the activity requirement of 10 posts in the past 8 weeks.

Ok thanks

[homelycooking]

It's one of those days when I read through topics on the AFE board and just sigh.

[Senator Cris]

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The next At-Large election will be held on August 21-23 and Blair resigned on July 27. So it's time for a special election, I'm right?

[homelycooking]

Yes, of course. But we're in the strange position of having no RG (no updated official list with which to check the validity of ballots) and having no declared candidates for Blair's seat. Hopefully those issues can be resolved by this time next week.

[cinyc]

Yes, of course. But we're in the strange position of having no RG (no updated official list with which to check the validity of ballots) and having no declared candidates for Blair's seat. Hopefully those issues can be resolved by this time next week.

I've managed to run Northeast elections without having an RG or updated official list.  I don't think it would be much of a problem for you to do so.  You'd just need to take into account changes that occurred after the RG was banned.  There weren't a ton of changes, except for a few region changes and deregistrations.

[homelycooking]

Well, I'll do my best. One hopes that the election won't be a walkover.

[homelycooking]

Reminder: the special election ends at midnight tonight EST (1:00 AM EDT). I believe that the count currently stands at 33-27 in favor of Altsomn Stmarken, with 2 invalid and 1 write-in. Turnout has just broken 40% with a little over two hours of voting left.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

40%? Wow

[Oakvale]

Entirely possible that this was the lowest turnout national election in Atlasian history.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Entirely possible that this was the lowest turnout national election in Atlasian history.

Jaysus

[Lumine]

Funny, I actually expected turnout to be as low as 30% or so.

[SWE]

Funny, I actually expected turnout to be as low as 30% or so.

Keep in mind the fact that several posters deregistered in the past few weeks, so you need fewer voters to get a higher turnout.

[homelycooking]

OFFICIAL RESULTS
SPECIAL SENATE ELECTION OF AUGUST 2015  

ALTSOMN STMARKEN 35 (Altsomn Stmarken, twistory, Peeperkorn, Leinad, Spiral, Classic Conservative, Small L, Goldwater, IndyRep, Pessimistic Antineutrino, DC al Fine, Clark Kent, cinyc, JCL, RGN, dead0man, TJ in Cleve, bronz, Cathcon, Celtic Empire, ZuWo, NHI, rpryor, bmotley, sbane, shua, NCYankee, Anton Kreitzer, Reaganfan, RogueBeaver, angus, Pandaguineapig, Potus2036, ModerateVAVoter, Dereich)

HARRY S TRUMAN 28 (Adam Griffin, Polnut, Antonio V, darthebearnc, Kalwejt, Windjammer, Harry S Truman, DemPGH, Marokai Blue, Duke, dkrolga, Xahar, Simfan, vivaportugalhabs, TDAS04, Wulfric, benconstine, Pikachu, Winfield, evergreen, Flo, New Canadaland, Bore, Fuzzybigfoot, Badger, Cris, homelycooking, badgate)

SWE (write-in) 1 (SWE)

INVALID 3 (AutumnLeaf, Clarence, Gekkonidae)


ALTSOMN STMARKEN is elected At-Large Senator.

There was a total turnout of 67 voters, with 3 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.

[homelycooking]

Five candidates will be on the ballot for this month's at-large Senate elections:

North Carolina Yankee
Cris
Altsomn Stmarken
Evergreen
Kalwejt.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What happened to Truman?

[homelycooking]

What happened to Truman?

He didn't declare his candidacy for the election.

[homelycooking]

42 ballots cast.

Cris	11
NC Yankee	7
Altsomn Stmarken	6
Kalwejt	6
Harry S Truman (WI)	5
Evergreen	4
Dkrolga (WI)	2
Ilikeverin (WI)	1

Truman currently beats out Evergreen for the fifth Senate seat due to Dkrolga's transfers.

[Classic Conservative]

How much longer is there to vote?

[homelycooking]

How much longer is there to vote?

You would know that if you had...

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