September 2011 General Election

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Today marks the start of the September 2011 The North Pacific General Election.

The following positions are up for grabs:

Delegate
Vice Delegate
Speaker of the Regional Assembly

Members who are nominated must meet the criteria set forth under regional laws. Members who are nominated MUST BE SECONDED by someone else AND the nominee must ACCEPT the nomination. For this election, members who nominate themselves MUST be seconded by someone else.

The nominations will go for seven days, ending on 13 Sept. 2011 at 0730 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time, GMT - 7). After that, voting will begin. During these seven days, those who are valid nominees will be allowed to campaign in the respective campaign forums.

Nominations begin now. Any questions, feel free to ask me.

Govindia,
The North Pacific Election Commissioner, September 2011.
 
Assuming the incumbent Delegate does not plan to seek re-election as he has indicted in the past, I plan to seek the Delegacy in this election.
 
For this election, members who nominate themselves MUST be seconded by someone else.
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To our hard-working Election Commissioner:

This statement is inaccurate. Per the definition of "Candidate" in Law 26:

“Candidates” are those individual members of the Assembly who either declare themselves, or who have accepted a nomination by another Assembly member preceding the close of nominations, as a candidate for an office or position to be chosen at that election. Candidates may only stand for one office or position during a given Election Cycle.
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Inasmuch as I have declared my candidacy for Delegate, Law 26 does not require a second.
 
Blue Wolf, here's a link to the post in the thread on "Assembly Membership and Seniority," in the main R.A. forum. It shows the date of most recent admission to the R.A. for all current RA members.

It was updated as of August 31, and I assume Felasia has it current. That would be the list the Election Commissioner would use to verify who is eligible to run in the election.

http://s13.zetaboards.com/TNP/topic/6737597/1/?x=25
 
I still want an official list. After all, what I think and what those running the elections think can be two completely different things. Is it so wrong to want clarification?
 
Personal opinion, this election is going to suck. We have almost no candidates who are eligible to by the letter of the law. Most of those who can run are already elected officials and only 3 non-elected officials in the RA out of 11 are even allowed to run. As a result, most of these offices will probably be run completely uncontested and I vow if that happens I will do everything I can to makes those elections invalid. It is an abortion of democracy when the law denies people willing to take office the chance to run, and thus subjecting us to this ridiculous ruse.

I refuse to vote in an election where you only have one choice for each office.
 
Blue Wolf II:
Personal opinion, this election is going to suck. We have almost no candidates who are eligible to by the letter of the law. Most of those who can run are already elected officials and only 3 non-elected officials in the RA out of 11 are even allowed to run. As a result, most of these offices will probably be run completely uncontested and I vow if that happens I will do everything I can to makes those elections invalid. It is an abortion of democracy when the law denies people willing to take office the chance to run, and thus subjecting us to this ridiculous ruse.

I refuse to vote in an election where you only have one choice for each office.
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Maybe the problem is that such a small number of people care about the region enough / are involved in the game enough to hold on to their RA Membership, which is rather simple to do.

EDIT: And I second Felasia even though seconds aren't required just so there isn't an argument about not qualifying by the OP v. qualifying by law again.
 
Blue Wolf II:
I would love to run for office, Topid. The laws say I can not.
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I know. And I'm saying the real shame isn't that the laws don't make it very easy to run for office, it is that we don't have a larger group of people that care enough about TNP or the game as a whole to check in every now and then to keep their RA membership so that they can run for office when this time of year rolls around.

I agree that it is completely embarrassing we have reached the point that there is no one eligible to stand in these elections, but for once we can't really blame that on the laws. It lies on our shoulders for failing to keep enough people active here, and failing to bring much of a new generation to TNP as old players leave the game / become less active.
 
Topid:
Blue Wolf II:
I would love to run for office, Topid. The laws say I can not.
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I know. And I'm saying the real shame isn't that the laws don't make it very easy to run for office, it is that we don't have a larger group of people that care enough about TNP or the game as a whole to check in every now and then to keep their RA membership so that they can run for office when this time of year rolls around.

I agree that it is completely embarrassing we have reached the point that there is no one eligible to stand in these elections, but for once we can't really blame that on the laws. It lies on our shoulders for failing to keep enough people active here, and failing to bring much of a new generation to TNP as old players leave the game / become less active.
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^ :clap: :agree: :hug:
 
Felasia, please PM The Voting Booth and let him know of the current active list of RA Members, and I will work with the admin team to verify who is eligible to run and who is eligible to vote. The nomination period can continue as otherwise noted.
 
The nominations will go for seven days, ending on 13 Sept. 2011 at 0730 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time, GMT - 7). After that, voting will begin.
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If voting begins on the 13th and today is the 10th is it perhaps time for some campaign threads? Looking at the January election, voting started on the 10 and all three candidates for delegate had their threads up by the second, two by the 31st.
 
My point still stands. There are not enough people legally allowed to partake in elections to even warrant a campaign, for two of three offices are being run against uncontested. Does it come as a great surprise to anyone that the only contested seat is that of Delegate? The elections are a joke since most of the willing candidates are barred from running. It is a complete mockery of the democratic process.
 
It wouldn't be a mockery if people were willing to participate and help out in the months between elections. But, whatever, this pattern has repeated itself for, I don't know, about five years. Pretending to be newly shocked and appalled is disingenuous. Unimaginative and boring too.
 
I think the calendar has a lot to do with it. Many of our active players tend to be going back to school or universities between mid-August and mid-September.

And I'm sure some of them might be living in areas that have been having problems with natural disasters (The U.S. has had ten of those since January 1st with minimum losses of over 1 billion dollars; floods, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, it's been a nasty year.) And other places have been having a lot of those sorts of problems as well.
Activity tends to return as the weather becomes colder. :)

I will get a campaign thread up before Wednesday, but I've going to be AFYK a lot this week due to appointments in and out of town.
 
I think I already pointed out that's not an official list of eligible candidates, that's merely a list of RA members.

However, since you want to play that game, I nominate myself for Delegate. Let's see how far we can take this, eh?
 
I'll also throw my hat in the ring and run for the position of Speaker of the Regional Assembly. Nothing like a little healthy competition - especially around here.

Let's go, Uni. ;)
 
Sorry AMOM, but I was only putting my hat in 'cause no one else was and I thought TNP needed a speaker. I'm sure you'll be a fine speaker but since I was tight with my schedule as it was, with the UDL and TSP, I'm going to respectively stand down.

I, Unibot, respectively withdraw for the running as candidate for speaker and wish all candidates have a good election.

Yours,
Unibot
 
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