Department of Federal Elections

[Oakvale]

Who is charge here? What is going on? Has the Department of Federal Elections become some kind of perverted post-modern charade? This is a national disgrace. 

Hear hear comrade. The President must fire "Peebs" immediately. At least Teddy would actually post results in between breaks from reality.

[Classic Conservative]

Encke for SOFE

[West_Midlander]

lol an election certification via mibbit

[This account no longer in use.]

At least it isn't just Labor falling apart this time

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Peebs is a wonderful, hard-working SOFE. She is perfectly capable and fit to do the job.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I do think the real results need to be posted eventually, including the numbers. Doesn't have to be today, but this can't be sufficient.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think the quota is wrong


Floor (Valid Votes Cast/[Seats+1])+1


I had 119 votes cast validly in the House election. Does anyone else have that number?


119/10 (Seats+1) is 11.9

floor function rounds down according to PiT back in April.

That means 11+1 equal 12.

If I am wrong on the number of votes and it was 120 or higher, the quota is 13 instead of 12.

I don't see where 14 was obtained, unless they used a different formula or have a different interpretation of the formula from PiT.

[West_Midlander]

Peebs is a wonderful, hard-working SOFE. She is perfectly capable and fit to do the job.

[West_Midlander]

I do think the real results need to be posted eventually, including the numbers. Doesn't have to be today, but this can't be sufficient.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

God bless the Deputy for doing this when I had to sleep!
The proper certification - blood-steat-tears version
Now can you guys stop rioting?!

At least it isn't just Labor falling apart this time

Both sides do it.

[DavidB.]

I have to say that it's still not really clear to me. So the quota was 12, CMB, Fhtagn, Leinad, Pessimistic, Peebs and Yankee were elected on the first count, Novella was eliminated with the fewest votes, then Alpha and cxs were elected because they had more votes than Poirot?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I have to say that it's still not really clear to me. So the quota was 12, CMB, Fhtagn, Leinad, Pessimistic, Peebs and Yankee were elected on the first count, Novella was eliminated with the fewest votes, then Alpha and cxs were elected because they had more votes than Poirot?

Go to column O and scroll straight down and you will see the full results for each round.

[DavidB.]

Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks!

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Oh yeah, since Smith's de-registration made Atlas Lib Dems a minor party, there'll be a special election this weekend. Will make sample ballot soon.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

WARNING! Do not vote until 0:00 EST (1:00 EDT)! You will have 72 hours in which to vote - there's no rush!

REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA - In Dave We Trust
Official Ballot

READ THIS FIRST

1. The election will last 72 hours, starting at 0:00 EST Friday August 4 and ending 0:00 EST Monday August 7.

2. You are eligible to vote in this election if you have made 10 posts on the Atlas Forum in the past 8 weeks, have registered as a voter with the Registrar General more than 7 days before the start of the election, and have not had your voting rights stripped as a result of deregistration or a court verdict.

3. You must vote by ranking your choices in the order of your preference: 1 for your first preference, 2 for your second preference, and so on. You may write in preferences for candidates not on the ballot. If you only wish to preference one candidate, marking an X next to the candidate's name or simply writing the candidate's name is sufficient, provided that you do not wish your vote to transfer to other candidates.

4. If you do not wish to vote for any candidate on the ballot nor to write in a candidate, you may vote for None of the Above as your first preference. All candidates ranked under None of the Above will not receive those preferences during the counting of the votes.

5. You are permitted, but not advised, to edit your ballot within 20 minutes of posting it within this thread. Deleting your ballot at any time or editing it after 20 minutes will result in the invalidation of your vote.

6. Please check over your ballot thoroughly before you click "Post". You have no excuse for casting a ballot which contains errors or does not accurately reflect your preferences. Failure to correct errors in your ballot may result in its disqualification. While the alphabetically-ordered ballot below is provided for your convenience should you wish to quote this post, you may order the candidates on your ballot however you would like.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - ONE SEAT

[  ] Potus2036 of West Virginia
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] Write-in: ______________________________
^{-__________________}

[  ] None of the above

[Potus]

Should go without saying, but I'd like to be able to accept votes as Potus as well.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Should go without saying, but I'd like to be able to accept votes as Potus as well.

I was going to do that anyway.

[Poirot]

Surprise! A special House election. Where was this announced? I may have missed it. According to Federal electoral Act.

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If an election is advertised there is a better chance to have more than one candidate on a ballot and if there are people interested they can declare.

Also the party should decide who is filling the vacancy. Section 3 of the constitution states

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the effected party could be the party who helped the representative get elected, meaning the registration on the ballot. If it's party at the time of resignation, the representative resigned before deregistering. I see on the last census there were three members. Sp if at the time of resignation there were three members (before deregistering) I think it's enough to be considered an official party (unless there is a official number to be considered a major party).
I think the vacancy should be filled by the party at the time of resignation (if not at election) and there shouldn't be a special election.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

@ Poirot the party fell below recognition status so they couldn't fill the vacancy

[Poirot]

@ Poirot the party fell below recognition status so they couldn't fill the vacancy

The census table at the end of July shows a party with three members, that is a recognized party. Unless there is a mistake somewhere, I presume at the time of the resignation the party had 3.

I don't see anywhere a criteria that states another point in time to maintain a treshold, would it be 24 hours after resingation, three days? or that a party must maintain a minimum for a period of time, like during two days following resignation?

When it was announced there would be a special election it was too late for candidate to appear on the ballot anyway. I imagine it would be awkward to advertise elections in an elections game... Anyway I think the special election is illegitimate. 

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The census table at the end of July shows a party with three members, that is a recognized party. Unless there is a mistake somewhere, I presume at the time of the resignation the party had 3.

Ah, but you see, that included CXSmith (who has since deregistered). With his departure, the Lib Dems dropped to two registered voters, and thus lost major party status.

[windjammer]

SoFE Peebs,
Until this court case has ended, the August House special election cannot be certified.

Regards,
The Supreme Court

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Got it. Will post results after the election (albeit lacking a certification) so I can later, should the occasion arise.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Potus2036 - 33 (68.75%)
LLR (WI) - 13 (27.09%)
Bacon King (WI) - 1 (2.08%)
Firstdegreeburns (WI) - 1 (2.08%)
Invalid:
Bacon King (not enough posts)
tedbessell (reg too late)

Not certifying yet due to lawsuit, but wanted to save this.

[Wells]

This quote seems applicable in light of recent events:

Who is charge here? What is going on? Has the Department of Federal Elections become some kind of perverted post-modern charade? This is a national disgrace.