Department of Federal Elections

[Terry the Fat Shark]

I would like to petition the administrators of this election to count votes for "Riley" in my favor. My real name was my username for a number of years here on the forum and friends from back in the day know me much better by that name than Potus.

Politics certainly seems to work in circles

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=250376.0

There is a difference between using a foreign language and someone's real name lol

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Madame Secretary,

Using Google Translate to decipher Hashemite's vote, it translates as such:

THE PRESIDENT
[1] April Ludgate
[2] Seda Toutkhalian
[3] Aliya Mustafina
[4] DFW Liberty Lover

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[1] April Ludgate

I get "DFU Freedom Lover" as Hasehmite's fourth preference when using the "detect language" tool on Google Translate.

Gah, why do people do this sh*t?

Change it to Russian

[Terry the Fat Shark]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=258879.0 the bill hasn't been passed yet

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Non English language ballots, invalidate

Stupid write ins, invalidate

Trolls trying to act like they actually know something, invalidate

Attention whores trying to impress someone, invalidate

Says the guy who only comes into Atlasia these days to bitch.

     I have conducted elections with foreign language ballots, and I must say that it becomes quite problematic. Sometimes I cannot readily identify the language and Google doesn't help. It will think the ballot is in one language, but then Google Translate has nothing to say about the ballot, nor does any other online translator I can find. I wouldn't wish this hassle on homelycooking, or any other SoFE for that matter.

I'm gonna call hogwash on this one. The IDS has probably had more foreign language ballots cast as of recent than any other region. At least within the past year, any ballot which you have counted, I have as well, and I've never came across a serious ballot that was somehow non-translatable or otherwise unclear to the point of having a legitimate reason for invalidation.

Obviously there are ballots that are sometimes cast that clearly do not have any actual preference designated, but that is a different story. This initiative does not guarantee those sorts of ballots any different treatment than they would receive now.

Foreign language ballots are not difficult to translate. Very few people on here are true polyglots, and as such, the same tool they used to create the ballot is very likely the same one you would use to decipher it. Sure, translating into that language and back again may produce a less than optimal result, but ya know, context clues.

This initiative wouldn't force all ballots cast in any language to be counted, but rather, it would prevent election administrators from automatically throwing out ballots because they've dictated such.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

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Context and understanding of hilarious old memes is very important.

Very SAD that you take everything so seriously - will be fun!

my life is a meme

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Smilo?

[Terry the Fat Shark]

(Peterthlee)

[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

[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

[Terry the Fat Shark]

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

[Terry the Fat Shark]

hold on we are checking the math

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Well, it is a good thing ReaganClinton20xx switched to Alliance this morning, if he takes office and resigns, Alliance gets to appoint the replacement. Therefore, feds will not have a majority regardless on if this is right or not.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Regarding the current special election - I voted after 12am my time, and I'm EST. How come that isn't valid? Can I cast a valid vote now?

you're EDT, not EST and yes you can so long as you delete the invalid vote cast too early

[Terry the Fat Shark]

SoFE Peebs would never commit election fraud, she is not opportunistic. It is one mistake and such mistakes have been made before by other SoFE's, I don't think some of you understand how hard it is to do all of this math in one attempt and it's a super reactionary (kind of trumpian) backlash right now...

[Terry the Fat Shark]

SoFE Peebs would never commit election fraud, she is not opportunistic. It is one mistake and such mistakes have been made before by other SoFE's, I don't think some of you understand how hard it is to do all of this math in one attempt and it's a super reactionary (kind of trumpian) backlash right now...

With respect, I do not think that there is a previous case of an SoFE missing 5 valid first round votes for a given candidate, in conjunction with various other errors.

Similar incident happened in April 2017 and I am sure if I took the time to do serious research of past SoFE's I could find more.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

SoFE Peebs would never commit election fraud, she is not opportunistic. It is one mistake and such mistakes have been made before by other SoFE's, I don't think some of you understand how hard it is to do all of this math in one attempt and it's a super reactionary (kind of trumpian) backlash right now...

With respect, I do not think that there is a previous case of an SoFE missing 5 valid first round votes for a given candidate, in conjunction with various other errors.

Similar incident happened in April 2017 and I am sure if I took the time to do serious research of past SoFE's I could find more.

While April 2017 incited controversy because it was so ridiculously close, it did not involve such a dramatic round 1 undercount (5 votes for 1 candidate).

Wulfric I'm on Vacation and I need to go to bed, can we continue this on like Thursday or maybe a surrogate could take my place

[Terry the Fat Shark]

I think Peebs is in the right here iirc though it was never enforced before.

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