Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

[Leinad]

How much longer is there to vote?

End of Sunday, 72 hours after the voting started. Unless I'm mistaken, federal elections are all Friday-Saturday-Sunday.

[Leinad]

Rules question: a vote for a candidate is still valid if the party's wrong, correct? Because, unlike what Hatman said in his vote, Truman isn't a Federalist, last I checked.

[homelycooking]

Correct. I'll still count the vote, though I wish he would have checked his ballot over before posting.

[homelycooking]

60 ballots cast.

Cris	12
NC Yankee	11
Kalwejt	9
Altsomn Stmarken	8
Harry S Truman (WI)	8
Evergreen	7
Dkrolga (WI)	3
Ilikeverin (WI)	1
invalid	1

Truman still ahead of Evergreen in the race for the fifth seat.

[homelycooking]

OFFICIAL RESULTS
AT-LARGE SENATE ELECTION OF AUGUST 2015 

FIRST BALLOT

NORTH CAROLINA YANKEE 19 (ModerateVAVoter, Cassius, ClarkKent, sbane, Goldwater, shua, RogueBeaver, DC al Fine, PiT, NCYankee, Clarence, CELTICEMPIRE, Leinad, TexasGurl, TJ in Cleve, Marokai Blue, Cathcon, Jbrase, Dereich) ELECTED

CRIS 15 (IndyRep, Classic Conservative, smoltchanov, rpryor03, Simfan, RFayette, JonathanSwift, Winfield, Lumine, Angus, homelycooking, Superique, ZuWo, Cris, Jack Enderman) ELECTED

KALWEJT 15 (Kalwejt, TDAS04, Peeperkorn, New Canadaland, Hifly, Fuzzybigfoot, Alfred F Jones, Antonio V, Badger, Windjammer, Vega, Torie, nclib, Adam Griffin, Gass) ELECTED

ALTSOMN STMARKEN 10 (Free Bird, Bmotley, Altsomn, ElectionsGuy, RGN, NHI, twistory, Sanchez, Oldiesfreak, cinyc)

HARRY S TRUMAN (write-in) 10 (vivaportugalhabs, pikachu, Harry S Truman, darthebearnc, DemPGH, Polnut, benconstine, SJoyce, Cincinnatus, Duke)

EVERGREEN 9 (Flo, Small L, Wulfric, Gustaf, Clyde1998, Hatman, Ebowed, bore, Evergreen)

DKROLGA (write-in) 3 (Dkrolga, Spiral, JCL)

ILIKEVERIN (write-in) 1 (ilikeverin)

INVALID 1 (IBDD)

SECOND BALLOT: Transfer of NCYankee surplus, elimination of Dkrolga and Ilikeverin

NORTH CAROLINA YANKEE 15 ELECTED

CRIS 15 ELECTED

KALWEJT 15 ELECTED

ALTSOMN STMARKEN 15.37 (Free Bird, Bmotley, Altsomn, ElectionsGuy, RGN, NHI, twistory, Sanchez, Oldiesfreak, cinyc, Spiral, JCL, ModerateVAVoter, Cassius, ClarkKent, sbane, Goldwater, shua, RogueBeaver, DC al Fine, PiT, NCYankee, Clarence, CELTICEMPIRE, Leinad, TJ in Cleve, Cathcon, Dereich) ELECTED

HARRY S TRUMAN (write-in) 11.42 (vivaportugalhabs, pikachu, Harry S Truman, darthebearnc, DemPGH, Polnut, benconstine, SJoyce, Cincinnatus, Duke, dkrolga, TexasGurl, Marokai Blue)

EVERGREEN 9 (Flo, Small L, Wulfric, Gustaf, Clyde1998, Hatman, Ebowed, bore, Evergreen)

EXHAUSTED 1.21 (ilikeverin, Jbrase)

INVALID 1 (IBDD)

THIRD BALLOT: Altsomn Stmarken's surplus being insufficient to give Evergreen a higher total than Harry S Truman, Evergreen is eliminated and Harry S Truman is ELECTED.


NORTH CAROLINA YANKEE is elected At-Large Senator.
KALWEJT is elected At-Large Senator.
CRIS is elected At-Large Senator.
HARRY S TRUMAN is elected At-Large Senator.
ALTSOMN STMARKEN is elected At-Large Senator.

There was a total turnout of 83 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.

[homelycooking]

Turnout was 52.2%, the lowest for any general election since I started administering elections in 2011, and down 20% from April's at-large Senate election.

Edit: I was wrong - the April 2012 at-large Senate election had very slightly lower turnout.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Turnout was 52.2%, the lowest for any general election since I started administering elections in 2011, and down 20% from April's at-large Senate election.

This is depressing

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Turnout was 52.2%, the lowest for any general election since I started administering elections in 2011, and down 20% from April's at-large Senate election.

Edit: I was wrong - the April 2012 at-large Senate election had very slightly lower turnout.

Yea, for some reason I thought April 2012 was higher then it was until I looked at it and was like, god that's low. That was the first At-Large election post party dissolution, which saw a lot of voters drop out of the game on both sides. And At-Large elections are largely driven by party organizations (cough bgwah cough).

We anticipated about 17 more voters overall.

[Oakvale]

The special election a week or two back had a turnout of 39% I think, so there's that.

Like apparently half the electorate, I did not see the point in bothering to vote when the results were obvious in advance.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The special election a week or two back had a turnout of 39% I think, so there's that.

Like apparently half the electorate, I did not see the point in bothering to vote when the results were obvious in advance.

Actually the results were not obvious at all. Of the three, any two of Truman, Evergreen or JoMCar could have made it in with just some minor shifts. The difference between Truman and Evergreen was like two votes. Also Cris' success rested far more on indy appeal then any other factor, even more so then I figured on because his base fractured. Some of those indies I figured on going to other candidates like Truman or even Evergreen. Truman was also able to win a write-in bid without a major party backing him. The last two times that happened was with thE JCP with BRTD in August 2011 and the RPP With SPC way back in December 2008.

It was a much better balance of merit based voting and yet not repeating April where so many dilluted their own votes by firsting people who were way over the highest quota ever achieved in Atlasian History (like 23 I think). They may in fact have been the best candidate, but if your first pref guy has 23+ first prefs, its way past time to first your second preference choice or even third to get them up within range of winning. Otherwise you are just giving said second pref candidate a decimal point instead of a whole vote.

[Senator Cris]

I'd like to remember to party leaders that they should register as progressive, conservative or moderate and that the deadline is early tomorrow.

[rpryor03]

Civic Renewal registers as Conservative.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Federalist Party Registers as Conservative

[Adam Griffin]

Labor registers as progressive.

[homelycooking]

Civic Renewal and the Federalist Party have registered as conservative, the Labor Party as progressive. No party registered as moderate.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The People's Party registers as centrist.

[Clyde1998]

I don't know if this is still open, but the Northeast National Party registers as progressive.

[Senator Cris]

Both TPP and NNP registered after the deadline. We'll see what can be done.

[Adam Griffin]

With the unfortunate judicial trolling of the past day against the office of Registrar General and the subsequent requirement that I close all operations to the public - including access to the Census Bureau's registered voters list - until there is a resolution, I ask the Department of Federal Elections to delay certification of the constitutional convention delegation election results until such time as the office of Registrar General and the Department of Federal Elections are both able to publish once again and verify the eligibility status of each voter who casts a ballot.

[Senator Cris]

With the unfortunate judicial trolling of the past day against the office of Registrar General and the subsequent requirement that I close all operations to the public - including access to the Census Bureau's registered voters list - until there is a resolution, I ask the Department of Federal Elections to delay certification of the constitutional convention delegation election results until such time as the office of Registrar General and the Department of Federal Elections are both able to publish once again and verify the eligibility status of each voter who casts a ballot.

Absolutely not. The Convention started on the 21th and we should work immediately.

[homelycooking]

OFFICIAL RESULTS
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATE ELECTION 

DELEGATES FROM THE NORTHEAST (four to be elected)

QUOTA: 4

Candidate	Rd 1	tr	Rd 2	tr	Rd 3
Oakvale	5	-	4	-	4
Winfield	4	-	4	-	4
RGN08	2	0	2	1	3
Clyde1998	2	0	2	1	3
Bore	1	1	2	0	2
ClarkKent	1	0	1
Pikachu	1	0	1
Evergreen	0	0	0
Cincinnatus	0	0	0

DELEGATES FROM THE SOUTH (three to be elected)

QUOTA: 2

Candidate	Rd 1
NCYankee	2
Leinad	2
Adam Griffin	2
SWE	0

DELEGATES FROM THE MIDEAST (four to be elected)

QUOTA: 2

Candidate	Rd 1
JCL	2
Windjammer	1
vivaportugalhabs	1
NeverAgain	1
EarlAW	1

DELEGATES FROM THE MIDWEST (two to be elected)

QUOTA: 4

Candidate	Rd 1
Cris	5
Marokai Blue	4
ilikeverin (WI)	2
tmthforu (WI)	1
Bmotley	0

DELEGATES FROM THE PACIFIC (two to be elected)

QUOTA: 1

Candidate	Rd 1
Classic Conservative	1
Simfan34	1

CLYDE1998, OAKVALE, SIMFAN34, CLASSIC CONSERVATIVE, MAROKAI BLUE, CRIS, WINFIELD, RGN08, LEINAD, NCYANKEE, ADAM GRIFFIN, JCL, NEVERAGAIN, VIVAPORTUGALHABS, and WINDJAMMER are elected as delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

There was a total turnout of 42 voters.

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

[homelycooking]

Amusing result in the Pacific.

[Leinad]

Amusing result in the Pacific.

But a relatively good turnout in the Midwest. Who would've expected it to have twice as many voters as the Mideast?

[Senator Cris]

Mr. SoFE,

At-Large Senator Kalwejt deregistered from the game and so there is a vacant seat in the Atlasian Senate.

Best regards,
Speaker Cris.

[homelycooking]

A special election will be held, beginning this upcoming Friday.