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Esteemed members of the General Assembly (that means everyone) of the Free Province of Fiôvâ (that's us):
According to the Constitution of our Province, elections for a three-person Praisidïeu (standing committee of the General Assembly) will be held at the same time as every Cosa election. This election will run from September 15th until October 1st, 2023.
Under the Fiôván Elections and Referendums Law (ERL), Title I Section 3, as Secretary of State I am required to submit to the General Assembly the rules by which we will carry out this election.
Therefore, I hereby declare that the rules for the upcoming election of the Praisidïeu will be as follows:
1. Nominations for the Praisidïeu (Title III Sections 1-2) will open on August 23, 2023 and will close 15 days after that, on September 8th.
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Under Title III Section 2.1, such a nomination includes the candidate's full name; their party affiliation (if any); and a statement, no longer than fifty words, of the candidate's aims and objectives (optional).
Please make these nominations in this thread, or by personal communication with myself.2. The period between close of nominations and start of voting (Title III Section 4) will therefore be one week, as determined by the Chancery's timetable for the national elections.
3. the actual process of voting and the production of the "ballot paper" (Title II Section 2) will be delegated to the National Chancery, whom I have asked to use the same voting mechanism as used for Senäts elections. This will allow "write-in" candidates (Title III, Section 5.3.1): the voters may give any citizen, not just the officially nominated candidates, a preference.
4. Once the Chancery reports all the votes, I will count them using the OpaVote website using "ERS97 STV" rules. I certify that this will provide a result as close as makes no difference to that set out in our law. (Title V, Section 12).
Who's up for it? Who's still here? Let's GOOOOO! .
Nominations in the Praisideu election are now open.
Still open.
Will stay upon until when?
The time for nominations will close in September 8th, 22:00 GMT-5
All right, looks like whatever way the FreeDems convention turns out, I have to stick around at least for the election. Thus:
Nomination for the Praisidieu from Miestră Schivă
50 WORDS: I support negotiating for provincial mergers, but at the same time defending Fiovă's uniquely democratic political system, which comes from our Republican heritage. Such a democratic system only works with mass participation. Are *you* doing your part to keep Fiovă alive?
Nomination for the Praisidïeu from Bråneu Excelsio.
50 words statement:
Let's do everything right now!
Fellow citizens of Fiôvâ.
In my capacity as Secretary of State, I'm present to you the results of the recent Praisidïeu election (https://www.opavote.com/results/6085050918502400), where you, the people, have spoken.
The Praisïdeu for the season is composed by:
Miestră Schivă.
Bråneu Excelsio.
Gödafrieu Valcádac'h.
We express our gratitude to all who participated in this democratic process.
Please remember that your engagement and active involvement are vital not only for the Fiován community, but for the Kingdom of Talossa.
Desfisetz quálse'cosă denă.
Very interesting that
@Audrada came within a hair's breadth of winning a seat, only ruled out by a tiebreaker!