As Secretary of the ILP, and therefore day-to-day leader of the party under our Standing Rules, I am filing suit against the Department of Forum Affairs for counting the vote of Sam Spade in the February 2006 Senate Election and February 2006 Presidential Election.
Article V, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Second Constitution provides:
Campaigning may not occur in the place where voting occurs. Any person who campaigns in such a place will have their vote counted as void and shall be subject to further punishment as the Senate may by Law determine.With an exception for usernames and signatures supplied in Clause 5.
On the
ballot, this rule is explicitly pointed out by the Department:
Campaigning in this thread will result in the invalidation of your vote.Sam Spade cast his vote
as follows:
It is my contention that describing one of the tickets as the "worst" constitutes an act of campaigning as meant under Article V. It is also my contention that suggesting that voters need their "head examined" if they vote for a particular candidate is also an act of campaigning.
Essentially Sam Spade's ballot is an egregious act of campaigning against both the Ilikeverin/PBrunsel ticket and the Brian from Family Guy (who is widely associated with the Girl Gone Wild scandal because he was said person) candidacy. Therefore the Department of Forum Affairs should have declined to count the vote.
