Voting: November 2024 Special Speaker Election
Voting is now open in this Special Speaker Election. Voting will be from (time=1731986400) (your forum time) to (time=1732418400) (your forum time), and ballots submitted outside that time are invalid.
Everyone who is a Citizen at the time voting opens is eligible to vote. Loss of Citizenship before the close of voting also results in loss of eligibility to vote.
Voters may submit their ballots either publicly by a post in this thread, or through personal message to The Voting Booth. All voters, both private and public, must use the following voting form:
Code:
[b]Speaker:[/b]
1. < Matzerati | Vapia | Abstain >
[b]Would you like to reopen nominations?[/b] < Yes | No >Ballots not submitted according to these guidelines are invalid. Ambiguous votes are invalid. If you wish to abstain, you must only mark line #1 with Abstain and omit all other lines except "Would you like to reopen nominations?", which must still be answered. Failure to properly answer "Would you like to reopen nominations?" will cause your answer to be counted as a "No". Marking a preference in any ranked choice line other than #1 will cause your abstention to be ignored and your preferences to be counted.
Election Commissioners are required by law to announce private votes in the voting thread, including the candidate(s) the vote was cast for, promptly after those votes are cast. To allow voters to verify their vote is individually counted, the Election Commission will provide a unique ballot ID to you as a reply to the submitted ballot, and will also include the ballot ID number when posting to the voting thread. For this reason, voters are discouraged from announcing that they have voted privately, as the subsequent public declaration by the Election Commissioners can potentially reveal how they voted.
Please do not post anything other than your ballot in this thread. If you have any questions please send them directly to The Voting Booth or start a new thread. Additional and unnecessary comments will be removed.
Election Commissioners: @Chipoli and @Lord Dominator
