Quote from: xpb on Yesterday at 06:35:33 PMA. Progressive Alliance (PROG) for Cosa
B. Þerxh Sant-Enogat for Lord Warden
C. 60RZ06=ÜC, 60RZ21=NON
D. ÜC L'ETATS

X. Pol Briga public vote submission

Your vote has been recorded and the receipt is here.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on Yesterday at 05:25:41 PMCosâ: Green
Provincial: Green
60RZ06 Për
60RZ21: Për

Your vote has been recorded and your receipt is here.

The rules did not account for unexpected (although pleasant) visitors at the SoS's abode 🥲

Quote from: GV on Yesterday at 04:50:21 PMCosâ: ¡Avant! (AVANT)
60RZ06 Për
60RZ21: Për
Fiova: M. Schivâ, G. Higraff, and T. dal Nâva

Your vote was entered: here is your receipt.

Quote from: Sir Ian Plätschisch on Yesterday at 04:30:34 PMCosa: AVANT
RZ06: ÜC
RZ21: NON

Your vote was entered: here is your receipt.

Quote from: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir on Yesterday at 03:50:59 PMI tried to cast my vote but I wasn't able to cast it correctly for the Ataturk House of Commons (I could write in an answer but not select it as my vote) so as long as everything else was recorded properly on the database (it was a private vote) I'll post here just for my Ataturk House of Commons vote which is for

¡Avant!

I have manually entered your vote. Apologies for the bug slipping through.

(Edit: and now I have corrected the code for all following voters, such that in a similar election the PRESENT option can be unchecked)

All 131 ballots should have been sent out -- happy voting!

Voting is now open!

Ballots haven't been sent out yet; I expect to send them out in very short order.

March-April 2025 General Election - Wittenberg Polling Station

The General Election is now open, and will remain so until April 1st at 5 PM (17:00) TST (23:00 UTC).

Ballots will be sent shortly after this post is updated. If you don't receive yours, or spot a potential error, you should PM me.

Live turnout (net me getting around to manually enter votes received outside the new Database) can be found here. Election rules can be found here.

HOW TO VOTE

You can vote in either of the following ways:

• by casting an electronic ballot on the Database: https://database.talossa.com/elections/2025-general-elections/vote
• by posting on Wittenberg on the official polling place thread (this one)
• by compiling the PDF ballot included with the ballot email and sending it by email to this same address
• by compiling the PDF ballot included with the ballot email and sending it by post (snail mail) - contact the Secretary of State for instructions

Either way, the first vote I receive is the one that counts. As per the Organic Law, all votes are final, and cannot be retracted, modified or altered in any way: if multiple votes are sent, only the first one is counted. The only exception is that if you vote on the Cosa part, but forgot to vote on the Senate part, you may add your Senate vote before the election deadline


IF YOU'RE VOTING ON WITTENBERG

Remember to vote on all parts of the ballot. If you only specify a party, your vote will only count for the Cosă.

A. Elections to the 61st Cosă
Vote for one of the following parties:

• ¡Avant! (AVANT)
• Progressive Alliance (PROG)
• Green Party (GREEN)
• Independent Conservative (DIEN)

If you do not wish to vote for any, vote PRESENT. Voting for any other party other than those listed above will also spoil this part of your ballot and count as PRESENT.

B. Elections to the Senate
If you are a citizen of Atatürk, Cézembre or Vuode, you are also voting for your next Senator. The following people have declared their candidacy:

• Atatürk: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir
• Cézembre: Sir Glüc da Dhi and Þerxh Sant-Enogat
• Vuode: Éovart Grischun

This is a ranked vote: You can rank any number of eligible citizens of your province, not limited to those who have declared their candidacy.

C. Organic Referenda
Two referenda are on the ballot:

• 60RZ06, "The Eternally Present (Din Memoriaziun da Ián Tamoran) Act" (text)
• 60RZ21, "The Fixed Electoral Date Amendment" (text)

Vote ÜC/YES, NO/NON or abstain on each.

D. Provincial
Important: check your provincial board first. While the Chancery means to facilitate provincial elections, these are not under its purview and voting threads will normally be opened in your province's board. This comment will be updated to reflect such situations and to redirect you if that becomes the case.

Depending on your province:

• Atatürk: vote for a party to represent you in the House of Commons
• Belacostă: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Provincial Assembly, AND rank three citizens of Belacostă to elect to the Provincial Council
• Cézembre: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in L'Etats
• Fiovă: rank as many citizens of Fiovă as you like to elect three seats in the Praisidïeu
• Florenciă: vote for a party to represent you in the Nimlet
• Maricopa: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Cabana
• Maritiimi-Maxhestic: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the Assembly
• Vuode: indicate whether you wish to claim a seat in the States General

Please use this thread to post issues with voting, feedback, questions, etc.

The election has not started; mailers can be sent out at any time by registered parties, according to rule A.3, either on their own or through the Chancery (subject to the 1 mailer per party per week limit). This was also pointed out to me elsewhere but I can't find any reference in law to the mailers being supposedly limited to the balloting fortnight. The election will begin in the TST morning of today, as indicated in election rule E.1 - so in less than 12 hours.

Regardless, both Avant and Green have submitted their first piece of literature and both have been sent out.

As detailed in election rule A.3, literature should be sent to the Chancery's Gmail address.

Azul, as is customary the Chancery will facilitate elections to provincial offices and legislatures by including ballot spaces for all provincial elections and seat claims. The Chancery will not tabulate the results; the raw ballots will be published after the end of the elections, in anonymous form except for the seat claim parts, which will be released separately. It is then up to the various provincial officials to decide if and how to count these ballots according to their electoral law.

Atatürk and Florencia will feature a single field for indicating a (write-in) party vote for the House of Commons and the Nimlet respectively.

Belacostă will receive two ballot spaces: one for the voter to stake a seat claim in the Provincial Assembly, and one for the Provincial Council election (ranked vote, 3 preferences).

Fiovă will receive a single ballot space for the Praisidïeu election (ranked vote, same as Senate).

Cézembre, Maricopa, Mariitimi-Maxhestic and Vuode will receive a single ballot space to stake a seat claim in their respective provincial assemblies.

Note that the process for claiming a seat is usually done by provincial officials with their own methods and timings; some are looser and neatly line up with the General Election's timing, some require specific formulas to be typed out in specific threads. I am very sorry for not being able to contact all relevant officials in advance as I originally wished to; I've made a judgement call to go on including all elections and claims on the ballot, and provincial officials should feel free to use the results or discard them, and to contact me should they wish to include further information on the ballot.

(Registrations for all ballot items are now closed.)