Department of Federal Elections: Homelycooking, SoFE

[homelycooking]

Presidential Preferences by Region, 1st Ballot

Region	Duke	Barnes	EarlAW	Polnut	ZuWo	Total	Turnout %
Northeast Region	2	5	6	13	7	33	76.7%
Southeast Region	4	2		2	10	19	79.2%
Mideast Region	3	1	1	4	10	19	79.2%
Midwest Region	1	5	7	3	2	19	79.2%
Pacific Region	1	6	2	1	1	11	52.4%
Total	11	19	16	23	30	101	74.3%

Presidential Preferences by Region, 3rd Ballot

Region	Barnes	Polnut	ZuWo	Total
Northeast Region	7	17	9	33
Southeast Region	2	3	13	19
Mideast Region	2	6	11	19
Midwest Region	12	4	2	19
Pacific Region	7	3	1	11
Total	30	33	36	101

Presidential Preferences by Region, 4th Ballot

Region	Polnut	ZuWo	Total
Northeast Region	23	9	33
Southeast Region	4	13	19
Mideast Region	8	11	19
Midwest Region	14	4	19
Pacific Region	9	1	11
Total	58	38	101

[Vasall des Midas]

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

FIRST BALLOT

EARLAW and DR CYNIC 16 (Ebowed, Jas, Snowguy, OIDB, nclib, Holmes, belgian, Lief, Lewis T, Dr Cynic, Sewer, EarlAW, Smash, CultureKing, ilikeverin, BRTD) [snip]

I never cast a vote for President and Vice President.

[homelycooking]

Grand Poobah

Aren't we clever. Sorry, Lewis, I'm going to count it anyway.

[Vasall des Midas]

Grand Poobah

Aren't we clever. Sorry, Lewis, I'm going to count it anyway.

Since I do not believe in the Atlasian "Justice system", that leaves me with no alternative but to call onto my zero supporters for direct, revolutionary action.

[Hatman]

Woohoo! I won the Midwest. What a wonderful region!

[Californian Tony]

Homelycooking is officially the best SoFE ever.

[Diabolical Minds Think Alike]

Homelycooking is officially the best SoFE ever.

[Yelnoc]

Homelycooking is officially the best SoFE ever.

^^A quote worth empty quoting

[Badger]

You've done an excellent job, Homely.

^^^^

[Senator Ben]

Homelycooking is officially the best SoFE ever.

^^A quote worth empty quoting

[Senator Barnes]

When will the special election be held to fill the vacant at-large Senate seat?

[Diabolical Minds Think Alike]

When will the special election be held to fill the vacant at-large Senate seat?

Well, I'm going to be resigning to accept SoIA, so there's going to be 2 vacant seats.

[homelycooking]

The election for the seat vacated by Sen. Polnut will be held March 9-11. If Sen. 20RP12 resigns this week, there will be an election for those two seats. If he resigns on or after March 7, there will be a second special election from March 16-18.

[homelycooking]

Clarence and EarlAW: Are your candidacy declarations for this week's At-large Senate special election, or for the regular election in April? It is not clear from your posts in the candidacy declarations thread.

[Senator Clarence]

This week-

[Hatman]

This week as well

[homelycooking]

Please look over the ballot and notify me as soon as possible of any mistakes. Thanks

REPUBLIC OF ATLASIA - In Dave We Trust
Preliminary Ballot

This election is held in accordance with Article V of the Constitution and with the Consolidated Electoral System Reform Act.  The regular election begins at 23:59 EDT, Thursday, March 8, and ends at 23:59 EDT, Sunday, March 11.

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.

Place the numbers 1, 2, 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 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.  

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 or a 1 beside "None of the above", and only beside "None of the above".  In the event that an X or a 1 appears beside "None of the above" on a ballot, all other marks or numbers will be ignored.  It is not permissible under current election law to vote for both "None of the above" and other candidates.

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

Names of candidates follow in alphabetical order.

AT-LARGE SENATE (2 vacancies to fill)

[  ] Clarence of Florida
^{Whig Party (Right to Life Caucus)}

[  ] EarlAW (Hatman) of New York
^{Washburnist Socialist Revolutionary Party}

[  ] Write-in:______________________________


[  ] None of the above

[homelycooking]

The polls are now open. I apologize for the 113-second delay - I kept getting inexplicable error messages when I tried to open the polls.

[oakvale]

Question - what's the deadline for declaring for write-ins? Has it already passed?

EDIT: More to the point, I'm assuming the deadline for the April election is still in the future?

EDIT EDIT: My God that first edit is an awkwardly phrased sentence. *cough*

[homelycooking]

I can recognize all of the write-in votes cast for candidates who declare their acceptance of write-ins in the Candidate Declaration thread before the end of the election.

[homelycooking]

This update counts all write-ins, though none of them are yet valid.

TOTAL VOTE = 39

First Count: QUOTA = 14

CLARENCE (Whig-FL) 14 (Pingvin, ZuWo, JCL, Franzl, BBF, MasterSanders, Clarence, TJ in Cleve, Junkie, Inks, Benconstine, A-Bob, Cathcon, Dereich) ELECTED

JBRASE (IB-TX) (write-in) 9 (Jbrase, Wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Scott, 20RP12, Yelnoc, PiT, Sanchez,  
OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 7 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger)
EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 7 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic)
OTHER (write-in) 2 (Lewis T, homelycooking)

Second Count: Redistribution of other write-ins

JBRASE (IB-TX) (write-in) 9 (Jbrase, Wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Scott, 20RP12, Yelnoc, PiT, Sanchez,  
OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 8 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, Homely) - 7 second preferences
EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 8 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic, Lewis T) - 4 second preferences

Third Count: Redistribution of EarlAW's votes

OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 12 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, Homely, Hawkeye, Fritz, Antonio V, Seatown) ELECTED

JBRASE (IB-TX) (write-in) 9 (Jbrase, Wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Scott, 20RP12, Yelnoc, PiT, Sanchez)  
EXHAUSTED 4 (Dr Cynic, EarlAW, Lewis T, AndrewPA)

[shua]

If a person writes in themself, doesn't that mean they are a legitimate write-in candidate?

[big bad fab]

If a person writes in themself, doesn't that mean they are a legitimate write-in candidate?

Yep. Cinci is a candidate who can be elected.

[homelycooking]

I would ask the Senate to clarify this language, from the CESRA:

In order for write-in votes for a candidate to qualify as countable votes, the person written-in must formally accept the write-in candidacy before the end of voting in the given election.

Is there any court case or law that defines "formal acceptance"? If this included writing oneself in, the language specifying "before the end of voting" would be redundant.

If someone can show me an amendment or a court decision that allows me to count votes for "undeclared but self-supporting" write-ins, I will happily do so - I'm the one who voted for Cincinnatus in the first place!

[homelycooking]

State of the race as of 10:00 PM, Sunday March 11

TOTAL VOTE = 65

First Count: QUOTA = 22

CLARENCE (Whig-FL) 18 (Pingvin, ZuWo, JCL, Franzl, BBF, MasterSanders, Clarence, TJ in Cleve, Junkie, Inks, Benconstine, A-Bob, Cathcon, Dereich, Jerseyrules, NCYankee, Simfan, Miles)
OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 15 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, MOPolitico, Cincinnatus, Polnut, sbane, Pyrofox, Peeperkorn, DemHawk, Fuzzy)
EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 15 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic, Snowstalker, Nathan, Lief, Smash, Sewer, Redalgo, nclib, RodPresident)
JBRASE (IB-TX) (write-in) 13 (Jbrase, Wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Scott, 20RP12, Yelnoc, PiT, Sanchez, Shua, Giovanni, Winfield, Brandon H)
OTHER (write-in) 3 (Lewis T, homelycooking, tmthforu94)
INVALID 1 (Republitarian)

Second Count: Redistribution of other write-ins

CLARENCE (Whig-FL) 19 (Pingvin, ZuWo, JCL, Franzl, BBF, MasterSanders, Clarence, TJ in Cleve, Junkie, Inks, Benconstine, A-Bob, Cathcon, Dereich, Jerseyrules, NCYankee, Simfan, Miles, tmthforu94)
OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 16 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, MOPolitico, Cincinnatus, Polnut, sbane, Pyrofox, Peeperkorn, DemHawk, Fuzzy, Homely)
EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 16 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic, Snowstalker, Nathan, Lief, Smash, Sewer, Redalgo, nclib, RodPresident, Lewis T)
JBRASE (IB-TX) (write-in) 13 (Jbrase, Wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Scott, 20RP12, Yelnoc, PiT, Sanchez, Shua, Giovanni, Winfield, Brandon H)
INVALID 1 (Republitarian)

Second Count: Redistribution of Jbrase's votes

CLARENCE (Whig-FL) 25 (Pingvin, ZuWo, JCL, Franzl, BBF, MasterSanders, Clarence, TJ in Cleve, Junkie, Inks, Benconstine, A-Bob, Cathcon, Dereich, Jerseyrules, NCYankee, Simfan, Miles, tmthforu94, Brandon H, Shua, Sanchez, Yelnoc, PiT, Jbrase) ELECTED

OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 17 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, MOPolitico, Cincinnatus, Polnut, sbane, Pyrofox, Peeperkorn, DemHawk, Fuzzy, Homely, 20RP12)
EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 17 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic, Snowstalker, Nathan, Lief, Smash, Sewer, Redalgo, nclib, RodPresident, Lewis T, Scott)
EXHAUSTED 5 (wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Winfield, Giovanni)
INVALID 1 (Republitarian)

Third Count: Redistribution of Clarence's surplus

OAKVALE (Lib-DE) (write-in) 17.84 (Napoleon, Oakvale, Ebowed, bgwah, Averroes, Reginald, Badger, MOPolitico, Cincinnatus, Polnut, sbane, Pyrofox, Peeperkorn, DemHawk, Fuzzy, Homely, 20RP12, Shua, tmthforu94, Franzl, Jerseyrules, NCYankee, Benconstine, Junkie) ELECTED WITHOUT QUOTA

EARLAW (WSRP-NY) 17.48 (EarlAW, Seatown, Antonio V, AndrewCT, Fritz, Hawkeye, Dr Cynic, Snowstalker, Nathan, Lief, Smash, Sewer, Redalgo, nclib, RodPresident, Lewis T, Scott, Jbrase, Clarence, ZuWo, Pingvin)
EXHAUSTED 6.56 (wormyguy, Dallasfan, Ghost_white, Winfield, Giovanni, Sanchez, PiT, Yelnoc, Brandon H, Simfan, Inks, A-Bob, Cathcon, Dereich, JCL, BBF, Sanders, TJ)
INVALID 1 (Republitarian)