This is the Presidential Call for Candidates. If you want to be President, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), Vice Presidential candidate, and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

u/YourRedditUsername | Your political party

Vice President: u/YourVPsRedditName | Your VP's political party
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. The election website's scraper script tries to detect diverging formats, but it might silently drop your CFC if you don't adhere to this format or one of the alternatives it understands.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change. The same rules apply to the vice presidential candidate's affiliation.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Is it really an "Election Result" if there was no election?

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest senators!
- u/average787enjoyer of the Lemon Party
- u/jsjrjffjcj of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/Dovahkiin4e201 of Senatus Populusque Romanum

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. Per the Party Leader & Election Registration Act 2024, citizens who wish to run for Senate may run on their own volition or be fielded as a candidate by the leader of their party, if they are in one. Party leaders are free to nominate multiple candidates for their party.

If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your username | Your political party/coalition

Description / Statement

• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

We have two empty seats and two nominations. Please vote to confirm the following senate members:

1. Dovahkiin

2. Quadschitzel

Please vote on if we should have peace with VoD.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a0z1qUuv7Pwl09DGdk4c67xe29aLI72lJdvZPNoxyfs/edit?usp=sharing

Here’s the vote for the Reddit Bill. The bill is attached, please state if you’d like it to be passed into law.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XFQlDsP1leDPKbRc9TlNimpnX7c2JMaSQY5N_YMEos/edit

Results are in!

We had 11 votes, all of which are valid.

There seem to be a few new folks around here, so I'll do a quick review of the voting system. In SimDemocracy, we use STAR voting, which stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff. Voters assign scores of 0 to 5 to candidates depending on how much they like or dislike them. They are free to also assign no score to a candidate and leave that part of the ballot blank. Blank scores are counted as 0s (though this used to not be true...but that's a story for another day). This won't matter for the current election, though, as nobody left any blank scores.

In the first round, the Score round, we tally up the total scores that each candidate received. In the Score round, u/hazza_time received a score of 47, while u/Cup_Of_Sauce received a score of 19. At this point, we say that the two candidates with the highest scores advance to the second round, while the rest are eliminated from contention. In this case, there are only two candidates, so both will advance by default.

In the Automatic Runoff round, we reassign ballots as votes for individual candidates depending on who scored higher of the two remaining candidates. So for example, if on a given ballot, if Candidates A and B are the two that made it to the Automatic Runoff, and Candidate A received a score of 4, while Candidate B received a score of 2, then the ballot is assigned to Candidate A. Ballots that gave both remaining candidates the same score are interpreted to have no preference between the two and are not counted for either candidate. The candidate with the most votes reassigned to them at the end of this process is declared the winner. In the Automatic Runoff round, u/hazza_time received seven votes, while u/Cup_Of_Sauce received two votes. Thus, we have a winner.

Congratulations to u/hazza_time of the Lemon Party and independent u/curser_petra on becoming SimDemocracy's next president and vice president!

Here is the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19YdxX7qpBWQ5s8iPX1kYL1IAhk9wQR0k-yNHsizAIOQ/edit?usp=sharing

It's time to vote for president!

You've got 24 hours. You know what to do.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/UP86M6o3fepLDNSUA

Hazzys' indictment of he "failure" of this administration certainly is effective political theatre, however is it actually particularly arcuate? I would say it is not, actually I would say that Hazzys' approach to the previous two elections undermines this critique.

SimDemocracy, generally, is mostly university aged users, as such most of us have been busy with the start of the university year from late August early September onwards. It is quite trivial to note the significant number of users that went inactive during this time generally citing time concerns or university itself directly.

This obviously impacts how an administration has to function, the ambitious plans of the first term of the administration had to be significantly scaled back once it was established that very few users would be around to delegate much work to or to participate within events.

As a sidenote with regards to hosting events it's particularly strange for a secretary of activity to complain about the inability to start the chess tournament (due to a lack of sign ups) despite said secretary of activity not taking any effort to promote the event or even discussing it at all for over a month, it would very much be a valid criticism of the administration if it was not being stated by an executive officer that could either direct their department to support the tournament, or discuss the issue within the cabinet chat.

Overall the low amount of active users means that actually completing any project that requires delegation is near impossible, a few users are actually active enough to delegate tasks to and of those the administration has been very cautious to not overwork said users (since generally even these active users have indicated a significant decline of how active they are, generally due to the start of the academic year and adding more duties to any particular individual may mean that other duties are less diligently completed). Where delegation has been possible there has been significant success, the administration aimed to increase SimDemocracy activity within the League of Servers and therefore appointed a lead delegate to the League of Servers who then proceeded to effectively enact the administrations policy very effectively, ironically the appointed Lead Delegate was Hazzy.

The fact delegation is very rarely functional at this current time is an extra problem given that I myself am starting the academic year, and managing an online government simulator and also writing a dissertation at the same time is particularly time consuming. This has added delay after delay to basically anything that the administration plans. Usually this would not be a particularly valid reason for a President to have not been particularly active, since usually there are other active users around that could have been President, this however was much much not the case. When I was planning my presidency I only really thought I would be President for two terms, however when nobody seemed to particularly run for President after that (with Hazzy directly stating support for me running again) I decided to run for President again despite that I would have significantly less time to focus towards SimDemocracy since the alternative would be probably somebody that doesn't actually want to be President, the same is true for the next election. Given how inactive the Senate has been, with very few of the Senators that have been elected writing any laws, it's obvious that there wasn't a particular source of politicians aiming to be the President at that time. The previous two terms of this administration certainly haven't been particularly active, however it's quite obvious that there isn't really any possibility of any other users hypothetical Presidency being particularly more effective since most people just were not active.

#The most obvious evidence of this point is Hazzys' endorsement of my relection for the 4th term, if the administration was a failure then why would Hazzy endorse my 4th term, the answer is that nobody else would have been active enough to have even any more effective as a President and that actually the administration was as effective as could probably be managed at that particular time.

Overall the administration has managed some decent success over the previous few months, despite having to alter the initial plans which generally were constructed wit the idea that at least for the first half of September there would be enough active users to enact significant expansion campaigns or community events with a significant amount of users participating, the administration managed to instead prioritise specific areas of policy that could be effectively enacted by the President of SimDemocracy without much need for delegation (although when delegation is possible it is generally ideal). The administration has managed to enacted a series of policies that could be very effective when there is enough of a userbase to effectively support such ideas, such as the Department of Expansion, or when the economy is functional (which is not because this administration has managed the economy particularly well or badly, it's because the economy doesn't have much meaning at least perhaps until a Minecraft Server is established).

It's probable Hazzy is going to be a President with more time to focus towards SimDemocracy (hence actually running for President this time instead of just endorsing the apparently failed administration), that is good for me since now I can play more video games rather than trying to get departments to be functional, however if Hazzy just dismisses the administration as a "failure" rather than try to learn why it was dealing with problems the way it did then the same process of being attempting to delegate tasks that there is no one to delegate to is going to continue (which Hazzys plan of seemingly trying to get users to join the department of activity to promote SimDemocracy, because the department of expansion apparently "failed", ignoring that the problem the department of expansion was trying to deal with was the fact that there was nobody to join and go around promoting SimDemocracy, seems to fail to understand). A vague statement of "rebuilding the economy" also isn't a plan, actually it also completely misunderstand the problem, the economy needs to be built, not rebuilt.

#TLDR Managing SimDemocracy during a time of particularly low active user amounts is particularly difficult, I mostly ran for my 3rd and 4th terms because there wasn't anyone else around that particularly wanted to, Hazzys' criticism is generally inaccurate and probably disingenuous and most importantly it must be understood that to be the President of SimDemocracy is at the moment mostly about trying to promote SimDemocracy as much as possible without (much) ability to delegate any tasks or establish major community events due to a low amount of users.

For the next 24 hours users can comment here any names for any aesthetic roles they would want (aesthetic role meaning a role that has a name and a particular colour. After that I am going to post a poll and the 2 that get the most votes are going to be added (these discord roles can then be purchased via utilising SimDemocracy virtual currency).

We have five senators, so might as well have a proper speaker cfc. If you want to be the speaker, say so.

This is the Presidential Call for Candidates. If you want to be President, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), Vice Presidential candidate, and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

u/YourRedditUsername | Your political party

Vice President: u/YourVPsRedditName | Your VP's political party
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. The election website's scraper script tries to detect diverging formats, but it might silently drop your CFC if you don't adhere to this format or one of the alternatives it understands.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change. The same rules apply to the vice presidential candidate's affiliation.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest senators!

• Independent u/Curser_Petra
• Independent u/Cup_Of_Sauce
• u/jsjrjffjcj of Senatus Populusque Romanum
• u/hazza_time of the Lemon Party
• u/average787enjoyer of the Lemon Party

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. Per the Party Leader & Election Registration Act 2024, citizens who wish to run for Senate may run on their own volition or be fielded as a candidate by the leader of their party, if they are in one. Party leaders are free to nominate multiple candidates for their party.

If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your username | Your political party/coalition

Description / Statement

• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Results are in!

We had eight votes, all of which were valid. In the Score round, u/Cup_Of_Sauce (Sam) received a total score of 8, u/hazza_time (Hazzy) received a total score of 15, and u/Dovahkiin4e201 (Dovah) received a total score of 34. As the top two scorers, Hazzy and Dovah advance to the second round, while Sam is eliminated. In the Automatic Runoff round, Hazzy received one vote after reassignment while Dovah received six votes after reassignment. An additional vote showed no preference between the top two candidates.

Congratulations to u/Dovahkiin4e201 of Senatus Populusque Romanum and independent u/theghostecho on being elected to a fourth consecutive term as SimDemocracy's president and vice president!

Here is the spreadsheet of votes and tabulation, with SUITs removed: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rgFFp_xMD6RJ3jk7iXexMud_iqN-lvf9H-QZSOjTVk0/edit?usp=sharing

Apologies for the late election! I was busy all day yesterday, and extremely tired when I got home.

Anyway, time to vote! For president this time! You've got 24 hours!

Vote here: https://forms.gle/gQEhvYysS6oVMFXp6

Here’s the vote for the bill discussed previously. Here’s a link to the bill itself.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15kv2iit29GDzjyhguQiqB79oaLC1SVM26K-P-1GyvH4/edit

This is the Presidential Call for Candidates. If you want to be President, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), Vice Presidential candidate, and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

u/YourRedditUsername | Your political party

Vice President: u/YourVPsRedditName | Your VP's political party
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. The election website's scraper script tries to detect diverging formats, but it might silently drop your CFC if you don't adhere to this format or one of the alternatives it understands.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change. The same rules apply to the vice presidential candidate's affiliation.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Danyo's recent video about the 'Alcris' crisis was excellently produced and of significant importance for the political simulator community.

Here is a link to the video essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItD1vKUMWg

Ave SimDemcoracy!

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If you want to run to be the Speaker of the Senate, please say so here.

Who is speaker?

When is speaker?

How is speaker?

Why is speaker?

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. Per the Party Leader & Election Registration Act 2024, citizens who wish to run for Senate may run on their own volition or be fielded as a candidate by the leader of their party, if they are in one. Party leaders are free to nominate multiple candidates for their party.

If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your username | Your political party/coalition

Description / Statement

• Make sure to register to vote. Only citizens with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you have not become a citizen or do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Citizenship Application or contact the Secretary of Immigration and Citizenship.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!