for the election occurring on February 16-18 of the year 2007
This election is held in accordance with
Article V of the Constitution and with the
Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act.
This election begins at 12:04 AM EST, Friday, February 16, and will conclude at 12:04 AM EST on Monday, February 19. Please only post here between those times. If you have already cast an absentee ballot,
DO NOT VOTE, or your votes will be invalidated per section 6 of the Electoral System Reform Act.
The act of campaigning within the election booth is
strictly forbidden and will render void any votes made by those who campaign. The act of campaigning is considered to include, but is not limited to, strong attempts to compel others either to vote or not to vote for one or multiple candidates, or other related activities that could reasonably be construed as a direct attempt to influence how future voters cast their ballots.
However, the Department of Forum Affairs will make every effort to be fair in consideration of the above matter and will give voters the benefit of the doubt. Explanations of one's vote or simple expressions of approval for a candidate will
not be construed as acts of campaigining, unless they obviously violate the above criteria.
In each race for which you are an eligible voter, place the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. in the space provided beside the candidates who you wish to vote for to designate your order of preference for these candidates. If any other mark or attempt to order the candidates is made, the Department of Forum Affairs will make every effort to deduce voter intent from the content of the ballot, but the warning must be issued that failure to follow the above instructions may result in the invalidation of your ballot in the event of an inability to discern voter intent. You are an eligible voter in general if you were registered to vote on or before February 6, 2007, and if you made 15 posts in any location within the Atlas Forum in the 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the election. You are an eligible voter for the regional Senate elections if you additionally reside in the region for whose senator you vote.
In addition, it would be appreciated by the Department of Forum Affairs, although it is by no means at all a requirement of the voter, that those who cast a ballot rearrange the order of candidates on the ballot to correspond to the order of preference that the voter holds for those candidates. This will help to streamline the tallying process and to prevent errors on the part of the election administrator.
In the event that you do not support any listed candidate or that you support one or many candidates that are not listed in addition to those that are, you may write in other candidates and include them in your list of preferences. Space is provided for one such write-in, but as many can be listed as you wish. In the event that you do not support any listed candidate, and do not wish to write in any candidate, you may place an X beside "None of the above", and only beside "None of the above". In the event that an X appears beside "None of the above" on a ballot,
all other marks or numbers will be ignored. It is not permissable under current election law to vote for both "None of the above" and other candidates.
For your convenience, here is a map of the regions, to aid you in the question of which region you reside in:
For the offices of
President and
Vice President:
[ ] afleitch/Yates (I-WI/LP-IL)
[ ] Boss Tweed/Porce (ILP-NY/JCP-OR)
[ ] ilikeverin/Lewis Trondheim (AMRLP-MN/IDPA-ND)
[ ] Keystone Phil/Speed of Sound (R-PA/BP-SD)
[ ] Lewis Trondheim/ilikeverin (IDPA-ND/AMRLP-MN)
[ ] Mike Naso/Inks.LWC (R-TX/ACA-MI)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
For the office of
Mideast Senator:
[ ] BRTD (SLA-IL)
[ ] MasterJedi (R-WI)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
For the office of
Midwest Senator:
[ ] Jas (I-IA)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
For the office of
Northeast Senator:
[ ] Conan (SLA-NJ)
[ ] Ernest (I-DE)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
For the office of
Pacific Senator:
[ ] Everett (JCP-CA)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
For the office of
Southeast Senator:
[ ] TN2024 (R-TX)
[ ] None of the above
[ ] Write-in: ________________
