Candidate Declaration Thread

[minionofmidas]

The form is optional and intended to help those who have had difficulty with stating all the needed info in their declarations.  I need some indication of which office one is running for and of whom one is running with from both people on a presidential ticket.  While we haven't had it done much, there is nothing in the law keeping one from running on multiple tickets, or from running for both President and Vice President on different tickets, which is why I am being a bit of a stickler here.

Running for VP on two different tickets just because I can is actually something I'd been wanting to do for months, but the opportunity never arose...

[minionofmidas]

Oh what the hell.

I'm running for Senate in whatever district Washington is in.

3 hours and 42 minutes late. Sorry.

[minionofmidas]

Oh what the hell.

I'm running for Senate in whatever district Washington is in.

3 hours and 42 minutes late. Sorry.

Haha, did anyone else declare in time?

Anyway, can I declare that I will be running as a write-in?

You already have. As has Speed of Sound.

[minionofmidas]

As per the Candidate Regulations - "
(...) Section 2. Declaration Thread.
(a) The Department of Forum Affairs shall maintain a stickied thread in the Atlas Fantasy Elections board for handling all declarations by candidates concerning any Federal election.
(b) In the case of a regular election the filing period shall begin 28 days before the start of the election.
(c) In the case of a special election the filing period shall begin as soon as the need for a special election is recognized by the Department of Forum Affairs.
(d) The Department shall make a post in the declaration thread when the filing period for an election begins. Any post concerning an election made in the declaration thread before the filing period begins shall be ignored by the Department. (...) "
I am supposed to ignore your statement.

[minionofmidas]

Not only this,

As per the Candidate Regulations - "
(...) Section 2. Declaration Thread.
(a) The Department of Forum Affairs shall maintain a stickied thread in the Atlas Fantasy Elections board for handling all declarations by candidates concerning any Federal election.
(b) In the case of a regular election the filing period shall begin 28 days before the start of the election.
(c) In the case of a special election the filing period shall begin as soon as the need for a special election is recognized by the Department of Forum Affairs.
(d) The Department shall make a post in the declaration thread when the filing period for an election begins. Any post concerning an election made in the declaration thread before the filing period begins shall be ignored by the Department. (...) "
I am supposed to ignore your statement.

but you also need to announce a running mate with your declaration. And it ain't valid til said running mate declares it's okay with him.

[minionofmidas]

In case someone's wondering, the filing period officially begins tomorrow.

Btw... there seems to be no special reason for the 21-day time frame (28 days to 7 days before the election) except Ernest's "Regulations". There's no legal reason why the filing period for the next general election can't begin right after the last one's results have been certified.

Therefore, I've decided not to be fascistic about it.
The DoFA recognizes the following candidacies as filed so far

Presidential Tickets
none

President
Al (with Doctor Cynic, if he agrees in this thread)
Keystone Phil (with Afleitch, if he agrees in this thread)

Vice President
none

Senate
-Northeast
TD
-Mideast
BRTD
-Midwest
none
-Southeast
none
-Pacific
none

Jake, the AFRNC's internal processes for picking a Presidential Candidate are none of the DoFA's business.

The filing period ends October 11th, 00:00am Eastern Time.

[minionofmidas]

The Regulations were only intended to state how I was going to do things, not bind future SoFA's if they wanted to so something different.  Anyway, I'm declaring for Northeast Senator myself.

Anything else in your regulations remains in place.

I'll probably put the change up on the wiki in formal language soon.

Btw, when I said the filing period ends with the beginning of the 11th, it was in the mistaken assumption that today is wednesday. :/ The filing period ends with the beginning of the 12th.

[minionofmidas]

The DoFA recognizes the following candidacies as filed so far

Presidential Tickets
Al / Dr. Cynic

President
Keystone Phil (with Afleitch, if he agrees in this thread)

Vice President
none

Senate
-Northeast
Ernest
TD
-Mideast
BRTD
-Midwest
none
-Southeast
DWPerry
-Pacific
fezzyfestoon

[minionofmidas]

The DoFA recognizes the following candidacies as filed so far

Presidential Tickets
Al / Dr. Cynic
Keystone Phil / Afleitch

incomplete tickets
-President
none
-Vice President
none

Senate
-Northeast
Ernest
TD
-Mideast
BRTD
MasterJedi
-Midwest
none
-Southeast
DWPerry
-Pacific
fezzyfestoon

[minionofmidas]

No, you'll run for reelection.
MAY THE KITTIES COMPEL YOU!

[minionofmidas]

The DoFA recognizes the following candidacies as filed so far

Presidential Tickets
Al / Dr. Cynic
Brandon H / Brandon W
Keystone Phil / Afleitch

incomplete tickets
-President
none
-Vice President
none

Senate
-Northeast
Ernest
TD
-Mideast
BRTD
MasterJedi
-Midwest
none
-Southeast
DWPerry
-Pacific
fezzyfestoon

[minionofmidas]

The DoFA recognizes the following candidacies as filed so far

Presidential Tickets
Al / Dr. Cynic
Brandon H / Brandon W
Keystone Phil / Afleitch

incomplete tickets
-President
none
-Vice President
none

Senate
-Northeast
DownWithTheLeft
Ernest
TD
-Mideast
BRTD
MasterJedi
-Midwest
none
-Southeast
DWPerry
-Pacific
fezzyfestoon

[minionofmidas]

I am running for Vice President as Ilikeverin's running mate.

[minionofmidas]

I am running for President with ilikeverin as my running mate.

I am running for President with Everett as my running mate.

I am running for Vice President as Everett's running mate.

[minionofmidas]

Oh. That only leaves Verin/Lewis and Lewis/Verin. These shall both stay up, though.

[minionofmidas]

In case it was not noted in the other thread, I am running for the Senate in District 3

Moi Aussi!

[minionofmidas]

Time already? Yeah well, okay, I'm running for the district I'm living in.

[minionofmidas]

I'll be challenging Lewis again.

Just run in your own district. That way we can be in the Senate together.

[minionofmidas]

In that case, I'll be running, but instead in District 2, as that's my new district.

Who's running in D2?

That would be me, the incumbent, DWTL, however I applaud your courage to run as you were going to rematch Lewis a matchup you just got humiliated in

Well the only vote in that election that wasn't self evident from the start was Preston's.

[minionofmidas]

Okay, it seems all but certain that Brandon H is running for President, so I might as well declare that I am running for Senate in the Midwest.

Jas has an opponent.

[minionofmidas]

I am standing as a candidate for Midwest regional senator.

[minionofmidas]

No, it's the 12th.  The cutoff is always 10 days before the election, and the election begins the 22nd.

What a curious fiction: Please read Section 7 of the CESRA.

Okay, I have:
"Any instance of the word 'candidate' in Sections 1 through to 6 shall be read as "ticket" in the case of Presidential elections." I fail to see the relevance.

[minionofmidas]

I'm running for reelection to the Atlasian Seanad, from the Midwest constituency.

[minionofmidas]

I, Speed of Sound, am running for the midwest senate seat.

Welcome!

[minionofmidas]

I am running for re election in the midwest region.

Just out of courtesy, could you repost this after the december elections? I'm not sure if there's any forum law or precedent about accepting declarations this early.
Thanks in advance.