Department of Federal Elections

[OSR stands with Israel]

With Santander in a third party will any party have a majority or will there need to be some type of coalition .

[Anna Komnene]

With Santander in a third party will any party have a majority or will there need to be some type of coalition .

They'll just vote on a Speaker just like the US House would.  Theoretically anyone could win.  For example, PiT is President Pro Tempore of the Senate despite the feds only having 2 seats.  From what I hear, Yankee was likely to retain his speakership even if Labor had won 5 seats.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Apparently, there were talks of replacing him with a partisan, but I would have deflected tbh.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Apparently, there were talks of replacing him with a partisan, but I would have deflected tbh.

He still hasnt sworn in yet

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Apparently, there were talks of replacing him with a partisan, but I would have deflected tbh.

He still hasnt sworn in yet

swear ins aren't for a couple weeks iirc

[Maxwell]

I'm pretty disgusted that we have Congressman Santander and he won in the first round.

[RaphaelDLG]

Is there any way that I can renounce my Atlasian citizenship?  I registered to vote for Peebs once and now the amount of spam I get is completely unbarable.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Is there any way that I can renounce my Atlasian citizenship?  I registered to vote for Peebs once and now the amount of spam I get is completely unbarable.

For what it's worth, the constant PMing is likely to die down now that the midterm elections are over.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Oh, yeah, I'm accepting applications for DSoFE, pending the President's signature.

EDIT: Since I got an application from evergreen (a Laborite), perhaps it should be made clear that Laborites can't apply for the position.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Nominating Leinad for the position of DSoFE.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Gonna say it again for the people in the back:

I'm nominating Leinad for DSoFE.

[fhtagn]

Gonna say it again for the people in the back:

I'm nominating Leinad for DSoFE.

Currently sitting in the back, still can't hear you.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Gonna say it again for the people in the back:

I'm nominating Leinad for DSoFE.

for the record I approved this

[Leinad]

Gonna say it again for the people in the back:

I'm nominating Leinad for DSoFE.

Sorry, what was that? iPad? My dad? Hi-hat? Eye rash?

but seriously thank you for the appointment

[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 June 23 and ending 0:00 EST Monday June 26.

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.

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF ATLASIA

[  ] Bacon King/Ben Kenobi
^{Harambe Freedom Party/Atlas Conservative Party}

[  ] Clyde1998/Siren
^{Labor Party/Independent}

[  ] dfwlibertylover/Goldwater
^{Federalist Party}

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

[  ] None of the above

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - NINE SEATS


[  ] Alpha of Minnesota
^{Labor Party}

[  ] CMB222 of Kansas
^{Atlas Conservative Party}

[  ] cxs018 of Massachusetts
^{Labor Party}

[  ] Dr_Novella of California
^{Labor Party}

[  ] fhtagn of North Carolina
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] Leinad of Georgia
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] North Carolina Yankee of North Carolina
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] OneJ_ of Mississippi
^{Labor Party}

[  ] Peebs of North Carolina
^{Labor Party}

[  ] Pessimistic Antineutrino of New Jersey
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] Poirot of New York
^Independent

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

[  ] None of the above

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

This is a bit late, but I just went through the Feb. 2017 presidential elections results and found discrepancies in the official totals.

For round 1, only 57 names are listed under dfwlibertylover in the official count, despite the fact that the official total is listed as 58. Also, dkrolga, who voted for Winfield/Poirot in round 1, and is correctly listed as such, listed NeverAgain as his second preference, but this is not reflected in round 2, as dk is absent from the round 2 listing.

The correct totals for round 1 should be 57 dfw, 49 Nev, 8 Win, 8 Max, 2 spoilt, to a total of 122.
For the second round, this should be 63 dfw, 58 Nev, 3 spoilt, also to a total of 122.

Edit: Also, bouncycorn posted a ballot that read ' ]dfwlibertylover,' and this was listed as spoilt. Not sure if there is some piece of legislation that defines a spoilt ballot, but other users got away with ballots that read 'dfw' or something similar, with no preference stated. If bouncycorn were to be counted in the total, then the official vote totals (which are currently one vote higher than they should be) would be fixed (aside from dkrolga's absence in Round 2).

Edit 2: For the House election, I'm counting 12 rather than 13 for tedbessell, 13 rather than 12 for simossad, and 12 rather than 11 for SecureAmerica/Heisenberg, putting my total at 119, rather than 118.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

First Round:
dfwlibertylover/Goldwater: 73 (60.33%)
Clyde1998/Siren: 38 (31.40%)
Bacon King/Ben Kenobi: 7 (5.79%)
Harry S Truman/scattered (write-in): 2 (1.65%)
Poirot (write-in): 1 (0.83%)
Exhausted: 0

Invalid: 5
lok1999 (edited too late)
Littlefinger (lack of posts)
Fuzzybigfoot (lack of posts)
lacoral (lack of posts)
North Carolina Yankee (voted too late)

Final Round (not that we need it):
dfwlibertylover/Goldwater: 77 (65.25%)
Clyde1998/Siren: 41 (34.75%)
Exhausted: 3

In any case:
dfwlibertylover is re-elected President and
Goldwater is re-elected Vice President.
Feel free to correct me on the actual numbers.
Correction #1: Due to the FEA, Truman accepted the failed #WriteInTRUMAN campaign by second preffing one of the tickets used (TRUMAN/VPeebs) and third preffing the other (TRUMAN/Torie). Also, I used Encke's vote totals.
House vote coming in the morning afternoon, oops.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Not that it matters, but didn't I get a couple of write-in votes (from you and Wulfric)? I wrote myself in for second preference, which I think counts for acceptance as far as the FEA is concerned.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

House results, courtesy of MikeWells, because I ed up the STV calculator and was too low-energy to do it again.
13:11   wells   14 is the quota??
13:11   wells   that means nobody goes over
13:11   wells   fhtagn and Yankee are elected
13:12   wells   novella is eliminated
13:12   wells   novella's prefs go to
13:13   wells   okay 3 to alpha, 1 to cxs, 1 to peebs
13:14   wells   alpha   13 peebs   14 onej   9 cxs   10 leinad   13 pess   12 cmb   13 poirot   7
13:14   wells   peebs meets quota
13:14   wells   but does not go over
13:14   wells   poirot eliminated
13:15   wells   which means more math will happen but eventually fhtagn, yankee, peebs, alpha, onej, smith, pess, [Leinad,] and cmb
TL;DR: 4-1-4 Fed/ACP coalition.

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

[JustinTimeCuber]

lol an election certification via mibbit

[DavidB.]

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.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

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.

Yes, I agree. I believe it's stated somewhere that the sofe must provide a list of voters who participated in the election or something like that.

[cinyc]

How can you invalidate Lok1999's vote?  Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the editing requirements were struck down by the Atlasian Supreme Court.  And the new amendment can't go into effect until after this election.

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

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.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

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. 

Peebs is SOFE.