Zero In: December Election Tracker

[TNF]

RIP Federalist Party

I must have missed that part where someone was found that could stop me. Whats his name, Mr. McDoesn't Exist? As long as I exist, so will the Party.  

What's that? Sorry, I can't hear you over the onward march of the Atlasian working class to control of half the Senate yet again

[tmthforu94]

If I win and Polnut loses I will resign so Polnut can be appointed to fill my seat. He deserves a win more than me

Class act.

[windjammer]

If I win and Polnut loses I will resign so Polnut can be appointed to fill my seat. He deserves a win more than me

That would be a spécial élection not an appointment.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

RIP Federalist Party

I must have missed that part where someone was found that could stop me. Whats his name, Mr. McDoesn't Exist? As long as I exist, so will the Party.  

What's that? Sorry, I can't hear you over the onward march of the Atlasian working class to control of half the Senate yet again

And that was in our power to stop anyway? Seriously, the only way for that to have worked would have been if Polnut and BK took enough votes from the Laborites to reduce it to one Senator. Also, the DR's folding in this election didn't help either as it ended any chance of three center right Senate seats.

That isn't the red of socialist flags you are seeing but the blood of the inactive Federalists I just slaughtered and had vampirized.

[TNF]

I think a more appropriate comparison might be a patient on life support, because that's what your party is.

[Foucaulf]

If Atlasia were a post-Soviet state, people will call a politician acting like TNF "an unrepentant party apparatchik" and NCYankee "a shameless populist oligarch."

The TPP would be the "Reformists" who can't seem to catch a break, much to the befuddlement of US observers. There may be debates on whether the US should enact sanctions to ensure free and fair elections.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think a more appropriate comparison might be a patient on life support, because that's what your party is.

It would be more apt to say that the right is on life support in general because of lack of engagement and interest.

[Bacon King]

If I win and Polnut loses I will resign so Polnut can be appointed to fill my seat. He deserves a win more than me

That would be a spécial élection not an appointment.

[quote author=Proportional Representation Act, Section 3, Clause 7]Should a candidate or candidates be certified victorious in an at-large STV election and concede the seat prior to the date on which they are to swear-in:
1. If they are a member of a major party, that party's chairman will have until the swearing-in date OR until five days after the candidate's concession (whichever time is later) to appoint a replacement. For the appointment to be valid, the chair must allow a minimum of 24 hours for nominations for the seat, followed by a party-wide vote to choose the replacement that shall last at least 48 hours.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Congrats to the winners, etc. etc.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If I win and Polnut loses I will resign so Polnut can be appointed to fill my seat. He deserves a win more than me

That would be a spécial élection not an appointment.

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NEver challenge BK or bgwah on election law coonsidering that together they have composed 90% of them.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If Atlasia were a post-Soviet state, people will call a politician acting like TNF "an unrepentant party apparatchik" and NCYankee "a shameless populist oligarch."

Indenial perhaps, but shameless?

As for populist oligarch, I miss the comparison. I reject populism and oppose concentrations of wealth and power, the epitome of an oligarchy no?

The TPP would be the "Reformists" who can't seem to catch a break, much to the befuddlement of US observers. There may be debates on whether the US should enact sanctions to ensure free and fair elections.

I haven't seen much vote fraud recently here.

[Simfan34]

If Atlasia were a post-Soviet state, people will call a politician acting like TNF "an unrepentant party apparatchik" and NCYankee "a shameless populist oligarch."

The TPP would be the "Reformists" who can't seem to catch a break, much to the befuddlement of US observers. There may be debates on whether the US should enact sanctions to ensure free and fair elections.

And "civil society activists" closely linked to the reformist camp would allege the "unreconstructed successor of the former Communist Party" regularly rigs elections through supposedly "novel" means.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Well crap, I thought Polnut was safe..

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Well crap, I thought Polnut was safe..

There's always a last-minute surge of voters. The issue is not being sure where they go or who they are.

[Simfan34]

Well crap, I thought Polnut was safe..

I thought the same thing back in March, and we all know what happened...

[Adam Griffin]

That isn't the red of socialist flags you are seeing but the blood of the inactive Federalists I just slaughtered and had vampirized.

There were certainly a lot of interesting currents flowing in this election, and I think it's hard to blame any one element (but yes, Federalists had a metric f[inks]-ton of no-shows; 40% of all no-shows in the election from a party that comprises 25% of the country).

There was also the dynamic of SWE not doing a good job of carrying the non-absolutists in Labor (probably to do with campaigning or the lack thereof). Some other candidates, however, didn't campaign, either. Bacon King and Polnut alike would have had a field day sniping Laborites in this scenario (similar to what occurred in August), but Lief was there to pull a lot of the voters they probably thought they locked down from other parties and from the independent bloc into his column.

I didn't bother even trying to count voters until a few hours before the election. I tried to use this last report (from 4:30 PM ET) as a baseline, and going into the end of the election, I showed something like this (can't remember if I updated it fully):

SWE - 20
Lief - 19
JCL - 19
Bacon King - 19
Cris - 18
Polnut - 17

Polnut was the one that appeared to be the lowest, but no one else seemed to show this scenario when we compared numbers after the booth closed. On one hand, I just assumed (all along) that my numbers were going to be off and were likely wrong. On the other hand, I thought it all made sense; I figured Yankee was voting for Cris because he was the most in danger, and I figured Cinci voted for BK because TPP thought Polnut was already too far gone.

Well crap, I thought Polnut was safe..

I thought the same thing back in March, and we all know what happened...

Fun times!

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

"Sunrise, sunset" the nature of games with these types of voting systems make things very interesting.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I only voted for Cris once I saw electionsguy had voted for JCL (essentially it was a downballot preference behind Spiral and Maxwell). I had figured that if TheHawk and Reaganfan turned out and voted (both were online at the time) that JCL had votes remaining that Cris didn't unless daveo came through. I expected to vote for JCL for 90% of the election.

[Bacon King]

ELECTED: LIEF, SWE, CRIS, POLNUT, BACON KING !!!

full results to follow

[Bacon King]

116 valid voters, quota 20

FIRST ROUND

Lief 20
SWE 20
Cris 18
BK 18
Polnut 17
JCL 12
Max 7
Spiral 3
exhausted: 1

Lief and SWE are elected without overflow.

ROUND TWO: Spiral eliminated

Lief 20
SWE 20
Cris 18
BK 18
Polnut 17
JCL 13
Max 9
exhausted: 1

ROUND THREE: Max eliminated

Lief 20
SWE 20
BK 20
Cris 19
Polnut 19
JCL 17
exhausted: 1

BK elected without overflow

ROUND FOUR: JCL ELIMINATED

Cris and Polnut elected

[Barnes]

What a good batch of senators all around!

[Maxwell]

This ended up cutting cleaner than I expected.

[ZuWo]

I didn't receive a single PM encouraging me to vote for a certain candidate before or even during the election. If that's in any way indicative of how the Federalists and D-Rs managed their GOTV operations this time around these results don't surprise me at all.

[free my dawg]

I don't know what was worse - me devolving into sage about the cromnibus getting passed or me being more depressed about the thought of Polnut losing than cromnibus getting passed.

[Bacon King]

I just double checked my preliminary count and my only error was that I missed a voter who first preferenced me. This increases my vote total by 1 in all counts but doesn't change anything except that I'm elected a round earlier