April Senate Election Discussion Thread - ELECTION TRACKER

[Adam Griffin]

I guess technically as of right now, there'd be some overflow to consider, but just trying to provide quick and dirty count thus far.

VOTERS: 23
LAST VOTE: OAKVALE
   
   
FIRST ROUND:   
   
ADAM           
7
ALFRED           
4
LUMINE           
4
SHUA           
4
GOLDWATER   
2
JCL                   
2
A PERSON           
0
   
SECOND ROUND:
   
GOLDWATER   
2
JCL                   
2
   
FINAL ROUND:
   
JCL                   
2

ADAM GRIFFIN, ALFRED F. JONES, JCL, LUMINE AND SHUA ARE ELECTED.

[Adam Griffin]

A small update; too lazy to go past the first round at this point.


TOTAL VOTES: 43
LAST VOTER: CATHCON

FIRST ROUND:   
   
ADAM   
10
ALFRED   
8
SHUA   
7
LUMINE   
6
GOLDWATER   
6
JCL   
5
A PERSON   
1

ADAM GRIFFIN & ALFRED JONES ARE ELECTED.

[Adam Griffin]

First Round:
Goldwater - 13
Adam Griffin - 10
Lumine - 9
Alfred F. Jones - 8
Shua - 8
JCL - 5
a Person - 1

Goldwater and Adam Griffin are elected. a Person is eliminated, his vote goes to Alfred F. Jones.

Second Round:
Goldwater
Adam Griffin
Lumine - 9.7
Alfred F. Jones - 9
Shua - 8.2
JCL - 7.1

Lumine, Alfred, and Shua are elected, JCL is eliminated.

Who do you have as [1]s for Goldwater? I had each of us at 11, but I was distracted earlier and could have messed up.

[Adam Griffin]

So we have 65 voters and the election is two thirds of the way over and the last day is Easter Sunday. To match even recent elections, turnout would need to nearly double over the course of the remaining day.

I bet there's 52-55 votes out there.

[Adam Griffin]

VOTES CAST: 66
LAST VOTE: THE CRANBERRY
QUOTA: 12

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FIRST ROUND:

GOLDWATER   
13
LUMINE   
12
ADAM   
11
ALFRED   
10
JCL   
10
SHUA   
9
A PERSON
1

FINAL ROUND:

ADAM   
11
ALFRED   
11
JCL   
10.61
SHUA
9.15

[Adam Griffin]

VOTES CAST: 78
LAST VOTE: MAROKAI BLUE
QUOTA: 14

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FIRST ROUND:

GOLDWATER   
15
ADAM   
14
LUMINE   
14
ALFRED   
12
JCL   
11
SHUA   
10
A PERSON
2

FINAL ROUND:

ALFRED   
12
JCL   
11.53
SHUA   
10.20

[Adam Griffin]

Did anyone else catch this?

AT-LARGE SENATE

[ 4 ] Adam Griffin of New Brunswick
^{Labor Party}

[3  ] Alfred F. Jones of Rhode Island
^{Labor Party}

[  ] a Person of Maine
^{The People's Party}

[1  ] Goldwater (Republitarian) of Delaware
^{Federalist Party}

[  ] JCL (Johanus Calvinus Libertas) of Indiana
^{Federalist Party}

[2  ] Lumine von Reuental of Montana
^{The People's Party}

[  5] shua of Nunavut
^{Democratic-Republican Party}

[  ] Write-in:______________________________
^{-__________________}

[6  ] None of the above

[Adam Griffin]

Thanks, y'all!

Does voting for NOTA in any preference mean NOTA is the vote? I think that's what I remember.

Yes, this was my interpretation as well.

[Adam Griffin]

Thanks, y'all!

Does voting for NOTA in any preference mean NOTA is the vote? I think that's what I remember.

Yes, this was my interpretation as well.

I don't remember that..

You're right:

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[Adam Griffin]

My full numbers are weak, but I think Shua narrowly beats JCL for that final seat on the Senate. The rest of the Senate is Adam Griffin, Alfred Jones, Lumine, and Goldwater.

This is the closest he's come to a Senate seat, and credit to the Federalists for turning out well for him. Still, probably cause of vote splitting, Labor candidates beat Federalist candidates (37%-31%).

I lost track toward the end (which is more common than I'd like to admit) and am pretty sure my numbers ended up a bit off, too, but here's what I had (lumping silly ballots with write-in [1]s with their first real preference). I also could have sworn that there was one more vote in the election - I'm wondering if someone deleted their ballot?

VOTES CAST: 110
QUOTA: 19

FIRST ROUND:

ADAM   
21
ALFRED   
19
GOLDWATER   
18
LUMINE   
17
SHUA   
17
JCL   
16
A PERSON
2

FINAL ROUND:

GOLDWATER   
18.09
LUMINE   
18
SHUA   
17.22
JCL   
16

[Adam Griffin]

O it ended midnight DST?   I feel kinda silly for messaging some people to vote for me after the election already ended. 

I think only the IDS has elections that go past midnight (but not technically; it closes at midnight CT, which doesn't make much sense to me but w/e).

This is the closest he's come to a Senate seat, and credit to the Federalists for turning out well for him. Still, probably cause of vote splitting, Labor candidates beat Federalist candidates (37%-31%).

I know I'm always going on about this, but there was no real reason that JCL should have lost this race - especially when you look at some of the Feds' preferences. Number-wise and organizationally-speaking, it should have been Goldwater, JCL, Lumine, Alfred and myself.

[Adam Griffin]

Oh boy, you gotta love the classic deflection and projection going on in this thread. It starts off as an analysis of how someone who'd no doubt be active was thrown under the bus by the Failderalist Party for the umpteenth time in exchange for somebody who has been effectively MIA for months, but is steered back at Labor. I'm not going to say the critique against Alfred is invalid, but bear with me here.

I think the real issue is that someone is upset because they can't get a grip on the Failderalist Party and is going about raging all across the FE board as a result. What is mistakenly referred to as "heavy-handedness" is actually just having any reasonable control or influence over a party whatsoever. Seriously, look at this:



Those are all the defections in this race: 15, with over half of them coming from the Failderalist Party.

Basically, one in four Failderalists couldn't be bothered to vote for a Failderalist candidate; I'm pretty sure Snowstalker had better retention against Napoleon in 2012.

Nine defections - JCL only needed two of those members to support him and he'd be a Senator right now. Hell, had Yankee voted for JCL, I'd probably have given JCL a [1] at the end, if only because a Senate with he, TNF and myself would have been a blast.

The main point and difference is this: the discussion over the activity of said Labor Senator will be handled in-house and won't tangibly affect the Senate over the long-term, while the activity of said Failderalist Senator has impacted the Senate for months and will be very likely to continue for at least four more. It's all the more ridiculous when you consider that they threw an otherwise active candidate under the bus for him, while their Party Chair supported the inactive one and has the gall to bitch about Senate activity in the same breath.

[Adam Griffin]

Bmotley isn't a Federalist.

G-D it

[Adam Griffin]

I'm sorry for what you're going through. I can't pretend to know what it's like. All I am or was aware of is your increasingly argumentative tone with multiple people in recent days, including the exchanges about activity with oakvale and those with Nix. Because of that, what's on the surface and what's being dished out is all I could take into consideration.

[Adam Griffin]

Bmotley isn't a Federalist.

G-D it

You also didn't count the Snowstalker JCL vote, which was hardly anything but considering no one else wrote him in and was just a way to vote for him in first preference without actually having to put him in the first slot.

Also there is the fact that we had two third party canddiates vying for our votes and no left wing third party candidates like in August and December doing the same to Labor, which also skews the numbers greatly.

Damn me and my obligations to other people, otherwise I wouldn't bother stating the obvious on this.

Snowstalker's not in a real party; I didn't count independents or those in parties who didn't have candidates, since they couldn't be counted as having defected.