Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

[Zanas]

There's a Communist Party of Atlasia and nobody told me about it ? Who runs it ?

[Zanas]

On the third ballot, why is SoS eliminated and not Spamage, since they both have 18 votes at this point ? There must be a tie-breaking rule I guess, I just don't know which one. Thanks.

[Zanas]

I think Simfan really has a case to be made. It's getting obvious though that the only possible outcome is the SoFE calling the election with his interpretation, and Simfan challenging the result in court.

[Zanas]

If we got the ruling of the Chief Justice right, "there should be no doubt as to the intent of the voter.", I don't see how we can interpret that otherwise than meaning "there should be no doubt as to the meaning of the voter's ballot as a whole, the full intent of the voter". Otherwise the same ballot could be valid in some cases and invalid in some others, which I don't think is right.

Yeah, I studied law... We practically get boners from that sort of cases...

[Zanas]

And so if you had been tied with Speed of Sound we should have thrown away his ballot, but with Simfan we should not ? I'm really not a fan of this "variable invalidity ballot theory"...

Don't get me wrong, I don't have an agenda against any of you here, just trying to reason legally what should be decided. FWIW I'd say that all three litigious ballots are invalid. I don't even know what consequence that would have on the outcome.

[Zanas]

Talk about a close race... In Atlasia, not in America !