The Forum Republican Caucus

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As per this thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=93420.0

Who would we elect as our Leader and who would be our Whip?

Nominations:
Leader
Torie
Phil
Jmfcst
Inks
Duke
Fezzy

Whip
Smid
Phil
Jmfcst
Inks

I'll keep the nominations open for a while longer, then we can vote on Leader. Once we've elected the Leader, we can vote on the Whip.

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Closing nominations for Leader. Nominations received thus far are for:

Torie
Phil
Jmfcst
Inks
Duke
Fezzy

Please feel free to cast your vote using optional IRV (ie, number as many squares as you want and preferences will be distributed where they exist).

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The results of the leadership ballot were:

Torie 3 (Bullmoose, Nixon in '80, Josh22 - I remembered that Josh said the other day he's not changed back to being a Republican, but I included his ballot pending a challenge if it cost someone the leadership)
Phil 5 (NiK, PBrunsl, Rin Chan, NC Yankee, Inks)
Jmfcst 0
Inks 1 (Officepark)
Duke 1 (Fezzy)
Fezzy 0

Distributing preferences from Inks and Duke, the results were:

Torie 4 (Bullmoose, Nixon in '80, Josh, Fezzy)
Phil 6 (NiK, PBrunsl, Rin Chan, NC Yankee, Inks)

Phil has therefore been elected Leader of the Forum Republicans.

Now that we've elected a leader, we should probably re-open the ballot for Whip, in case any leadership candidates wish to renominate.

Nominations received thus far are:

Smid
Phil (excluded, having been elected Leader)
Jmfcst
Inks

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Nominations for Whip are closed.

The nominations are:
Duke
Htmldon
Inks
Smid
Jmfcst

I shall follow the same optional preferential rules as I followed for the Leadership vote.