The Fritz Building for Forum Affairs

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From the Office of the Secretary of Forum Affairs:

The registration of the voter Adam Griffin has been changed from Atlas Forum Democratic Party to Independent, due to the former's official disbanding.

The registrations of the voters nickshepDEM, PADem, and Umengus have been changed from Farmer-Labor Party to Independent, due to the former's official disbanding.

These voters have been notified by PM.

Q
Secretary of Forum Affairs

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The staff of the Office of the Secretary of Forum Affairs is pleased to announce that the voter rolls have been updated.

They are available here.

Please suggest any changes and report any errors in this thread or by messaging the Secretary.

Thank you.

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Secretary of Forum Affairs

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Thank you for your help, Sam.  I think I have addressed each of the issues you have raised.  I appreciate your attention to these details.

And, yes, Liberty, I have taken King's post to mean that he is deregistering.

Voter rolls have again been updated.

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An excellent decision, Mr. President.

So you would like me to mark as "dormant" those who ask to de-register, rather than removing them in their entirety?

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I hereby open a public comment period on the official December 2005 Federal Elections ballot.  Please make any suggestions regarding the ballot (or voting in general) in this thread.

Thank you.

Q
Secretary of Forum Affairs

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While there are many qualified individuals who would serve honorably in this position, because I like to see new members get involved, and also for his judicious mindset appropriate for this job, I am pleased to announce the nomination of Yates to serve along side me as Deputy Secretary of Fourm Affairs.

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As a reminder, voting in the Federal elections has been open for some time now.

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I have reviewed the validity of KucinichforPrez's vote, and while I shall wait for final word from Q, it does not seem as though his vote will be counted due to inactivity.

In order that the interested parties in a close race might have a better understanding of the current situation regarding that race, I will make a decision at this point.

I am in agreement with the Deputy Secretary of Forum Affairs in that the voter KucinichforPrez's failure to have made 25 posts in the 8 weeks (56 days) prior to the commencement of this election renders the voter's ballot invalid.

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Does King's vote count?  And if so, for which District?

I do not speak for Q, but I can assure you that it shall not count.  He was de-registered.

Again, the Deputy Secretary and I are of the same opinion.  The voter King asked for de-registration and was thus marked as a dormant voter.  His ballot would be invalid on those grounds alone, but King also edited his ballot.

Furthermore, should the issue of re-registration (or dormant to active status) arise, my opinion on the matter is as follows.  If a voter is to re-register, his state of registration shall remain the same at least until 60 days following the original registration establishing that voter as a voter.  De-registration followed by re-registration will not allow voter to change states in frequencies less than 60 days.

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The Deputy Secretary and I will post the Senate results soon after voting ends tomorrow night.  Tallying the votes on symbols, however, will require substantially greater effort and thus will take longer to compute after voting has ended.

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I'm sure everyone who would read this already knows, but just as a reminder, voting in the Federal Elections will conclude tonight at 11:59:59 EDST.

I would be happy to address in this thread any issues regarding this election that any citizen would like to raise, as they pertain to the administration of this election, including voter registration, the counting of ballots, or another relevant subject.

Thank you.

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The voter FezzyFestoon's ballot shall be considered invalid due to editing of that ballot.

Other timely announcements can be found near the bottom of the previous page of this thread.

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The results of the December 2005 Federal Senatorial Elections have been certified.

Votes on the Symbols are currently being tabulated.  They will not be certified until later this week.

A run-off for District 4 Senate is scheduled for next weekend (Dec. 16-18).  As I will be away from my computer for a portion of that period of time, Deputy Secretary Yates will oversee at least those portions of the balloting for which I will be absent.

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Ballot counting and certification has determined that the Bald Eagle will be the National Bird.  For a detailed accounting, see the Federal voting booth.

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Q, you went from organizing the Southeast Ballot Intiatives to counting the National Symbols vote.

Yessir. 


On an unrelated note, the motto balloting results will be posted tomorrow evening.

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Oh, nothing. I just thought it was funny how every job you get, you have a huge task only a week or two into it.

Yes.  I hate myself sometimes.

I'd like to appologize (kinda ) for the pain of the Atlasian Symbols Act. (It's kinda because I still want it passed but I know it's like passing a kidney stone )

That's ok.  I voted for it myself as Senator.  Never thought I'd be the one actually having to do the thing though.  At least the original version got amended (it called for 10 categories of symbols).

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Voter rolls updated to reflect, among other changes, the changes in voter status following the December elections.

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Boss Tweed appears to be registered as a Communist.  I don't recall that happening, unless I missed it.

He did on the 12th of this month.  Updates like that are on the first page of the voter rolls file.

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Wouldn't mind a national motto either.

Coming right up.

Also, voter rolls have been updated.

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As chosen by popular ballot and certified by the Department of Forum Affairs, the national motto of Atlasia shall be Ad astra per aspera.

Round-by-round calculations may be found in the December 2005 Federal voting booth.

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the mammal count appears still to be missing.

Yates will post that soon.

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The following voters were recently removed from the voter rolls:

AndrewBerger
CARLHAYDEN
Cashcow
Fritz
KillerPollo
PAdem
Robert Goldwater
Straha
Ted Stevens
WBecker
WI_Dem

While some of these are long gone, others are still active, just not in fantasy politics.  I believe it is in the best interest of Atlasia that we make an attempt to return some of these voters to being active here.

Might I suggest that the "buddies" of some of voters (where applicable) as well as the Governors of the regions in which they were registered, respectively, try to make contact with these voters just to check on them, and perhaps encourage them to return?

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the mammal count appears still to be missing.

I have announced that the winner is the American Black Bear. 

Yeah, I'm aware of that. I was referring to the detailed count.

Yates is working on it.  It seems kind of pointless now, since Jake is challenging the election.

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The following voters were recently removed from the voter rolls:

AndrewBerger
CARLHAYDEN
Cashcow
Fritz
KillerPollo
PAdem
Robert Goldwater
Straha
Ted Stevens
WBecker
WI_Dem

While some of these are long gone, others are still active, just not in fantasy politics.  I believe it is in the best interest of Atlasia that we make an attempt to return some of these voters to being active here.

Might I suggest that the "buddies" of some of voters (where applicable) as well as the Governors of the regions in which they were registered, respectively, try to make contact with these voters just to check on them, and perhaps encourage them to return?

In the interest of public disclosure:  Yesterday I contacted each of these voters by PM informing them of their status and instructng them how to re-register.

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I'm assuming King's vote doesn't count.  He's a dormant voter, and wasn't a resident of the Pacific when he left.

Per your executive order, Mr. President, the voter is permitted to become active again upon his own declaration, is he not?  I think King should be thus once again be considered an active voter, and as such he has the right to change states.  Let me know what you think.

But I suppose it is ultimately up to the Governor of the Pacific.