[  ] Yes

[X] No

[Registration StatisticsMay 23, 2013]

Registration Statistics
May 23, 2013

Region	Federalist	Labor	Liberal	Light	NM(AM)	Other	Ind	Total
Mideast	19	7	8	5	1	2	5	47
Northeast	9	9	11	2	0	5	7	43
South	20	11	2	1	1	3	1	39
Pacific	3	11	10	1	3	2	7	36
Midwest	3	10	3	0	0	3	3	23
Total	54	48	34	9	5	15	23	188

[DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THE POST CONTAINING YOUR BALLOT IN ANY WAY AFTER 20 MINUTES OF ITS BEING POSTED OR YOUR VOTE WILL BE INVALIDATED]

REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA - In Dave We Trust
Official Ballot

This election is held in accordance with the 7th and 16th Amendments to the Constitution and with the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act.

DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THE POST CONTAINING YOUR BALLOT IN ANY WAY AFTER 20 MINUTES OF ITS BEING POSTED OR YOUR VOTE WILL BE INVALIDATED

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. In other words, this is not a discussion thread. In short, the department will be taking a liberal interpreation of this, so Keep posts to votes only.

Vote "yes" or "no" on the following referendum question. If any other mark or attempt to order the candidates is made, the Department of Federal Elections 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 the proper date, and if you made 15 posts in any location within the Atlas Forum in the 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the regular election. In other words, if your name appears on the Census list, you can presume you are eligible.  

Note that voting began at 9:00 AM and ends in exactly 72 hours.

QUESTION no. 1

Shall the following initiative be adopted as law?

The Right to Be Loony Initiative

Any and all ballots cast in any federal election shall not be subject to automatic invalidation or exhaustion as a result of being cast in any particular language, nor as a result of write-in preferences cast that can be clearly discerned as a preference.

[  ] Yes

[  ] No

oops, I forgot to open the polling booth. Last night was a bad time to get sick and go to bed early, I guess. I'll open it now.

[NOT]

Wanted to repost that I'm running for Northeast Governor...


...but more importantly, is clarence going to remain on the ballot for President?

No. He no longer has a running mate.

I will NOT be running for VP of Atlasia.

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REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA - In Dave We Trust
Sample Ballot

This election is held in accordance with the 7th and 16th Amendments to the Constitution and with the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act.

DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THE POST CONTAINING YOUR BALLOT IN ANY WAY AFTER 20 MINUTES OF ITS BEING POSTED OR YOUR VOTE WILL BE INVALIDATED

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. In other words, this is not a discussion thread. In short, the department will be taking a liberal interpreation of this, so Keep posts to votes only.

Vote "yes" or "no" on the following referendum question. If any other mark or attempt to order the candidates is made, the Department of Federal Elections 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 the proper date, and if you made 15 posts in any location within the Atlas Forum in the 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the regular election. In other words, if your name appears on the Census list, you can presume you are eligible.  

Note that voting begins at midnight and ends in exactly 72 hours.

QUESTION no. 1

Shall the following initiative be adopted as law?

The Right to Be Loony Initiative

Any and all ballots cast in any federal election shall not be subject to automatic invalidation or exhaustion as a result of being cast in any particular language, nor as a result of write-in preferences cast that can be clearly discerned as a preference.

[  ] Yes

[  ] No

The post was clarified directly below:

(I re-registered to California)

I should not need "clarification". Again, why can't you (drj) post in English?

I like being loony, but I also don't want to make things hard for you. I thought that posting in Russian and then also posting an English clarification was a sensible compromise that doesn't really require any more work from you.

I couldn't be sure that the two lines of Cyrillic text in place of your party affiliation also constituted a change. Nothing wrong with being loony, but could you please keep it out of this thread?

The post was clarified directly below:

(I re-registered to California)

I should not need "clarification". Again, why can't you (drj) post in English?

Nice work, Rob. What in the world is going on in Texas?

товарищ Котенок
Национальное движение «Алия Мустафина» - связан с Лейбористской партии, атлас империалистического фронта, атлас движения в защиту избирательных свободы, и исламистской лодке хунты
Калифорния

Is it really so hard for you to post in English here? I don't care what you do elsewhere in Atlasia, but you must understand that I don't understand Cyrillic and would have to resort to a questionable Google translation to decipher your registration. Please don't make my job any more difficult than it needs to be.

My suggestions: Mexico '06, South Africa '09, France '02, Canada '11, Bradford West by-election '12 ( )

I'm really enjoying this decidedly non-academic side of your political analysis, Hash. Great work.

Oh, ok. You should still remove the duplicate, though.

Duplicate? I'm not sure what you mean.

[not]

The initial registration does not count as a "change". I continue to post the 6-month date for new registrants for my own record-keeping. You still get a "free move" within your first 6 months as a new registrant because of bad Constitutional wording in the sections relevant to registration.

He is not a "monster", he is not an "animal", he is not "slime". He is a human being. Accept that the sort of things done by Gosnell are well within the human capability for cruelty and depravity. Call him what you like, think what you like of his misdeeds, but you do not get to expel him from the human race for what he has done.

On the one hand, what does that say about how we conceive of and treat real-life animals? That we think of them as brutal, mindless killers? That they deserve no more respect or fair treatment than our worst criminals?

On the other, who else do we get to forcibly divest of their humanity, either rhetorically or in physical fact? Do we really want to do that as a society?

There are aspects of human-ness which are foul, pernicious and embarrassing. But referring to them as being possessed by "sub-humans" or "animals" or "slime" represents a failure to come to terms with them. In some measure they are ours, too.

[Registration StatisticsMay 16, 2013]

Registration Statistics
May 16, 2013

Region	Federalist	Labor	Liberal	Light	NM(AM)	Other	Ind	Total
Mideast	18	8	8	5	1	2	6	48
Northeast	9	9	11	2	0	5	8	44
South	20	11	2	1	3	3	1	41
Pacific	3	9	10	1	1	2	6	31
Midwest	3	9	3	0	0	3	3	22
Total	53	46	34	9	5	15	24	186

There's only a couple more days for this, but I'd like to point out that the following initiative has received enough signatures (15) to be placed on the ballot:

Don't worry, I knew it. I keep track of the number of signatures acquired by each initiative.

No

[Registration StatisticsMay 9, 2013]

Registration Statistics
May 9, 2013

Region	Federalist	Labor	Liberal	Light	Other	Ind	Total
Mideast	17	7	8	5	3	7	47
Northeast	9	9	11	2	5	8	44
South	20	11	2	1	6	1	41
Pacific	3	9	10	1	2	6	31
Midwest	3	10	3	0	3	3	22
Total	52	46	34	9	19	25	185

You're free to move, Oakvale. You weren't deregistered when you were gone.

I guess in a week's time half of the center-left politicians in the Hispanic world will be calling themselves izquierdiligentes...

What is "X.O."?

DemPGH's name looks a little strange on your banner. It looks like it would normally be written "Dempgh". May I design you a new one?

Ah, the power of abbreviation.

[Registration StatisticsMay 2, 2013]

Registration Statistics
May 2, 2013

Region	Federalist	Labor	Liberal	Light	Other	Ind	Total
Mideast	16	7	8	5	3	7	46
Northeast	9	9	11	2	5	9	45
South	20	11	2	1	6	1	41
Pacific	3	9	10	1	2	6	31
Midwest	3	9	3	0	3	3	21
Total	51	45	34	9	19	26	184

WONDERFUL!  Phil Collins destroyed that band. 

I prefer the pre-Collins band too, but Genesis wasn't "destroyed" after Lamb Lies Down. A Trick of the Tail is one of my favorite albums, though it's very different from that which came before. The Collins band was far less theatrical and perhaps less adventurous musically, but it produced some very fine music that doesn't deserve the intense scorn it sometimes gets from the hard-core Gabrielophiles. I lose interest in the Collins band around the time of Invisible Touch, though.

...But Collins was on his best, I think, playing for Brand X!