An additional ballot has been issued and emailed to @Aryan Vaidya , who became a citizen midway through the election.

Turnout is 44% (61/138) with 5 days to go. I believe 35ish eligible voters haven't cast a ballot yet, but took part in at least 3 of the 4 general elections, referenda and census held in the last 2 years. Should they all vote, turnout would be a little shy of the 100 mark. If we could get to triple digits again, even if not to 105 like last time, I'd be happy I think.

 TANDI QE Aryan Vaidya tent compiaçat toct i resquiraziuns lexhitais per l'aðmiçiun àl Regipäts Talossan, es tent comvimçat la naziun es noi da sieu intereçù in la citaxhienità Talossan (la Mhiglhor Cosă Qe L'Erxhent Non Put Comprar), da sieu intenziun es desireu à partiçipar in noastră vidă naziunal, es da sieu leialtà àl Coronă, noi sint rat es þonourat àð aðmiçar perventüră Aryan Vaidya àl statüs exaltat del 612-l:t CITAXHIÉN VEITAT DEL REGIPÄTS TALOSSAN, es dal provinçù Maritiimi-Maxhestic, cün toct i drepts, privilexhuns, es deveirs qi sint iherinds à ça.

Fäts par va mha in la nómină del Regeu Txec es sub sieu Saxhel Rexhital li 27. Guscht in l'anneu dal eră comun 2026, in el secund anneu del röin da noastra soveran cortös Regeu Txec, es el 47-l:t dal independençù da Talossa.

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WHEREAS Aryan Vaidya has completed all the legal requirements for admission to the Kingdom of Talossa, and has satisfied the nation and us of his interest in Talossan citizenship (the Best Thing Money Can't Buy), of his intention and desire to participate in our national life, and of his loyalty to the Crown, we are pleased and honoured hereby to admit Aryan Vaidya to the exalted status of the 612th NATURALISED CITIZEN OF THE KINGDOM OF TALOSSA, and of the province of Maritiimi-Maxhestic, with all the rights, privileges, and duties thereunto appertaining.

Done by my hand in the name of King Txec and under his Royal Seal this 27th day of August in the year of the common era 2026, in the second year of the reign of our gracious sovereign King Txec, and of the independence of Talossa the 47th.




Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretar d'Estat / Secretary of State

Oath sent over

Stage 4  »  Andorra la Vella  ›  Andorra la Vella

Copypasted from PCS:

In the shortest stage of Vuelta 2026, multiple attacks unfolded early on the Port d'Envalira climb. Felix Gall and Tadej Pogačar broke clear with 50 km remaining, with Pogačar launching a solo attack to claim the stage win. He extended his overall lead, strengthening his hold on the Red leader jersey. Jarno Widar and Gall finished second and third respectively.

BDC get the stagewin and end their longest stagewin drought ever, at 26 winless stages - just longer than their previous winless streak of 25 between stage 20 of TCAT Italy 2024 and stage 5 of TCAT Spain 2024; an edition which they won, and they're certainly looking like the strongest contender to win this one as well, at the moment.

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	2142	+922
2nd	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	1975	+813
3rd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	1711	+615
4th	(=)		The Manilows (MAN)	1570	+533
5th	(+2)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	1530	+834
6th	(-1)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	1499	+514
7th	(+1)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	1290	+624
8th	(-2)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	1207	+439
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	1094	+494
10th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	1033	+494
11th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	772	+458

Today, what should be a sprint finish, as TCAT Spain finally actually enters Spain. A bunch of hills in the final quarter might however drop some of the heaviest sprinters, and the final stretch is slightly uphill. Maybe one for the puncheurs (like stage 2) rather than the pure sprinters.

Sent out: Aug 26, 2026, 4:27 AM TDT / 9:27 AM UTC
Submitted by: Mic'haglh Autófil on behalf of the Uniun dels Reformistaes Livereschti
Count: 2 of 2 allowed after Balloting Day

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<URL logo>

Azul Talossaes!

It's not too late to cast a vote for the Union of Free Reformists in the election! Six days remain to cast a vote; don't get left behind!

We've outlined the Democracy Agenda quite a bit. And I've recently recorded a brief speech that gives a bit more detail not just what we're going to do for our targeted immigration policy, but why it is that the change is important.

So today I'd like to talk about the third portion of our platform: teamwork.

We've pointed out that the outgoing Government has put far too much responsibility into one man's hands, and how things have ground to a halt as a result. That's why our last email introduced the URL's Shadow Cabinet -- this talented group has a lot of experience in government between them, and they want to put it to work for you! More hands make for light work; skilled hands will make for good work.

I did mention the Democracy Agenda earlier, and while I won't spend too much time on it in this mailer, notice that teamwork matters there, too. Several of our reforms emphasize that political parties shouldn't be games of Follow the Leader; they should be teams of people coming together around shared principles.

Teamwork also shouldn't be limited to within one political party. We've expressed our openness to collaborate across the aisle, too; openness no other party has shown. When we say we want the best for Talossa, and that cooperation is the best way to get us there, you can know we take it seriously.

We've used the phrase "Ja Pevar din 'n Uniun" throughout this campaign: "There is Power in a Union". And that power comes from people working together towards a common goal. We hope you'll decide to be one of those people by entrusting us with your vote. If you really want to help reach our goals, why not consider joining the Union as well? More information, including our Senäts endorsements, can always be found on our Party's Witt board. Look it over, and see that the URL is the right choice to get Talossa moving forward again.

Yours in Liberty, Democracy, and Progress,

Mic'haglh Autófil

Sent out: Aug 26, 2026, 4:27 AM TDT / 9:27 AM UTC
Submitted by: Breneir Tzaracomprada on behalf of the Independent Progressive
Count: 2 of 2 allowed after Balloting Day

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Hello, this is Breneir:

I am writing to ask for your support of the Independent Progressive (BREN) party. I was formerly the leader of the Green Party but have decided to explore a more independent and peculiar path. I believe that Talossa does not have to be an imitation of big countries. Nor do we need surface-level reforms that only address the aesthetic preferences of politics enthusiasts. We can choose to embrace our uniqueness and our differences. We can use our imagination to explore methods of governance and culture which best serve us without the constraints of tradition.

It just takes a little bravery and imagination. It also takes a willingness to cooperate and to let go of the past. Outrage and personal feuding are easy for some but the work of re-imagining Talossa is difficult but rewarding.

I promise bravery, imagination and cooperation: all of the above! And would welcome your vote in the current elections.

You can vote here in the National Database: https://database.talossa.com or by posting on Wittenberg on the official polling place thread: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=5436

Breneir

Probably at least two of the five I didn't vote for...

A week (and 5 hours) left to vote. I have just sent a first voting reminder to all 84 eligible voters who haven't cast a ballot yet; two more votes have been cast already, which pushed turnout over 40%. Atatürk was the first province to reach 50% turnout, but M-M has now overtaken it.

All six voters affected by the Google ballot tampering have re-cast their ballots now, and the countermeasures I implemented seem to be working, as I haven't spotted any further suspicious log entries ever since.

I'm also happy to report that I received an email vote over the weekend (that is, someone returned a compiled PDF ballot by email), meaning all four legal ways to cast a ballot have been used by at least one voter each.

Stage 2  »  Monaco  ›  Manosque

Uphill sprint finish saw Wout van Aert (CHX/CJO) attack with two kilometres to spare to try and snatch the red leader's jersey from Tadej Pogacar, but the effort was unsuccessful and it was his teammate Matthew Brennan (BDC/GHS/MAN) who instead sprinted to a dominant first place ahead of Pogacar in third, who keeps his red jersey and already a 30"ish lead on his closest actual competitors for the overall win, and Pedersen (CFA/MMM/REX) in fourth.

Among the three Brennan teams it is the Manilows who get the stagewin - their first ever - thanks to Tobias Halland Johannessen in 6th (also of CJO/VFL), while second placed BDC gets the overall lead.

Standings after stage 2:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(+2)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	1099	+581
2nd	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	1043	+505
3rd	(-2)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	973	+387
4th	(+2)		The Manilows (MAN)	938	+651
5th	(-1)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	821	+476
6th	(-1)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	689	+381
7th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	601	+339
8th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	601	+339
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	548	+286
10th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	454	+237
11th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	263	+217

Tomorrow we have our first summit finish - a long flattish approach to back-to-back category 1 and category 2 climbs. The outcome depends on who tries to get away in the early stages; a strong group of climbers would have a chance at staving off the GC favourites in the peloton, and perhaps even temporarily steal Pogacar's GC lead, while a weak breakaway will all but ensure the main GC contenders will dominate the top of the standings.

First postal vote received! I'm expecting one more, so this is probably going to be the election with the most postal votes in a long long while, if anything.

Glad to see you all back!

It thankfully seems like we're back to normal, so it seems like a good moment for the first turnout update; we're at 40 voters, or 29.2% turnout, with 13 days 8 hours left to vote.

We're a bit more than one fifth of the way into the election; last time, at this point into the election, 45 votes were cast (33.1%). It seems we're a little behind schedule, but this was also true of the last election, and yet it ended up being the election with the highest percentage turnout in post-Ben Talossa, and highest absolute turnout since July 2018, although in that one we had almost 50 more citizens.

GROUP 4
6. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
4. Derek & the Dominos - Layla
3. David Bowie - Starman
2. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
1. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train


GROUP 5
6. Toto - Africa
4. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
3. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
2. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
1. Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on August 17, 2026, 09:04:05 AMThank you for being transparent concerning your findings. I confess to being confused as to where the current track is headed. I can't tell whether this was AI bot interference, human error, or a combination of both.

In these 5 instances, I am 100% convinced it's AI bot interference; in your instance, 99%. Either way, I have done all I can to rectify both issues and provide the Government with all data I hold on the matter; I'm happy to report that 4 of 6 (edit: now 5) affected voters have recast their ballots, with a fifth having already reached out to me saying they would also re-vote soon.

Sent out: Aug 18, 2026, 6:16 AM TDT / 11:16 AM UTC
Submitted by: Crement Itravilatx on behalf of the Green Party
Count: 1 of 2 allowed after Balloting Day (next one: 25 Aug or later)

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I am new officially to the Kingdom of Talossa but have heard of the Kingdom's affairs for years through my husband, Breneir. As much as I and my party can I am excited to help contribute to a new direction for the Green Party and for the Kingdom. Under my leadership, Greens hope to cooperate with the other parties on activities and issues which bring joy and creativity to the Kingdom. We hope to contribute to a Kingdom where citizens flourish. We hope to make a Kingdom where healthy and positive relationships make Talossa like a school of life.
Those are big goals that we do not expect to achieve in a few months. We won't promise their achievement in just a few months either. We pledge honest work, respectful dialogue, and Where the ideas of other parties and the Greens coincide we will support them. We are a small party but big things can be achieved by those who dream big. We believe Talossa is composed of people who do dream big. Let's show the world that our little 'micro'nation can make 'macro'achievements. Let's make other nations GREEN with envy.
But first we need your support. Please vote on Wittenberg at https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=5436.0 or on the Database at https://database.talossa.com
Crement Itravilatx
Leader, Green Party

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on August 17, 2026, 09:29:35 AM

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 17, 2026, 09:26:21 AMDidn't really want to know who voted just a running total like you see on tv in the United States

You don't have that in the US either, what you see during Election Night are the numbers coming in as they count all the ballots after the polls are closed.

Yeah, especially when election nights were more of an event in the years before COVID, we theorised releasing results province by province to simulate precinct results coming in. The consensus was that there's so few voters in certain provinces, especially swing voters, that you would be able to pretty much figure out what everyone voted.

Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on August 17, 2026, 07:19:32 AMI wonder . . . it sort of sounds like a browser prefetch or AI feature gone wrong.

Do we know if the humans were all using the same web browser software (say, Chrome 151)?

Four were using Chrome 150/151 on Windows, Mac OS or Android; one was using Safari 26.6 on iOS.

Azul, I'm afraid the Chancery is currently investigating 5 ballots that were improperly submitted on the Database.

One of the five voters wrote me this morning detailing, with clear pictures, how his receipt showed a straight PRESENT ballot despite the confirmation modal on the voting page showing a fully compiled ballot.

I investigated the case through the logging and certification functions of the Database and found that the pattern in all five cases is the following:

• The legitimate (human) voter accesses the ballot;
• Some external (likely non human) actor, with an IP belonging to a Google block and a different UserAgent from the legitimate voter, immediately accesses and submits the ballot;
• The legitimate voter attempts to submit the ballot, but as a ballot in their name was already cast, they get redirected to the receipt for the external actor's vote instead.

In all five instances, the ballots were recorded as straight PRESENT choices. (EDIT: Additionally, it always takes exactly 6 seconds for the ballot to be submitted once accessed by the external actor.)

In three out of five instances, the external actor UserAgent, interestingly, was the same across all instances, and never appeared on any other ballots, EXCEPT for S:r Tzaracomprada's improperly submitted ballot (which also was recorded as straight PRESENT, and which EDIT: took 7 seconds to be submitted), and one single legitimate voter, which I already verified looks normal.

In the other two instances, the UserAgent was only different by a digit and shared by 6 other legitimate voters.

I am honestly at a loss; my theory is some sort of AI agent or bot by Google messing with the regular casting of votes. Either way, this isn't a Database problem, which paradoxically makes it more difficult for me to fix it.

The Chancery will immediately contact all affected voters to explain the situation and offer to recast or correct their ballots.

The Chancery will also explore ways to mitigate the issue going forward, e.g. blocking the Google IP range from which the external actors submitted the ballots, or adding a Captcha of some sort to the Database ballot, which might be challenging with an election actively underway.

Sent out: Aug 16, 2026, 4:46 PM TDT / 9:46 PM UTC
Submitted by: Miestră Schiva on behalf of the Uniun dels Reformistaes Livereschti
Count: 1 of 2 allowed after Balloting Day (next one: 23 Aug or later)

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    Talossa's general elections are underway, and I'd like you to vote for the Union of Free Reformists (URL), Talossa's best - and only - political team.
   
    The incumbent government, the Progressive Alliance, admit that they didn't accomplish very much of what they set out to do in this term. We don't think that this is because they're incompetent or untruthful. It's because they're something of a one man band.
   
    Their mailers say "we've done this, we've done that". But that's the royal We - and unfortunately, it includes accomplishments they can't honestly take credit for. The incumbent Seneschal Davinescu is a patrotic Talossan. Unfortunately, he is not five patriotic Talossans.
   
    This isn't just knocking the Government, though. There are five political parties on your Talossan ballot. Four of them are "one man bands" - that is, their leader pretty much is the party.
   
    Only the Union of Free Reformists - formed from a merger of two older parties - have an actual team for leadership. And only a Government which has a team approach will actually accomplish anything worthy in office. We really do have five patriotic Talossans!
   
    In fact, there are their names: the URL Shadow Cabinet
   
    For Seneschal, Finance, Public Records and Technology: Mic'haglh Autófil
    For Justice and Propaganda: Miestră Schivă
    For Immigration and Culture: Marcel Tafial
    For Foreign Affairs: Antaglha Somelieir
    For Defence: Andrïeu Cabischabuerg

Please respond to doloras@randomstatic.net if you have any questions or comments.

There is power in a Union!

restéu voastra,
Miestră Schivă
Party Secretary, Union of Free Reformists

Unfortunately not, the results will be revealed all at once when the deadline has passed.