Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 16, 2022, 07:51:12 AM
@Istefan Perþonest Is there an alternative to Paypal in paying the election fee? I am unable to transfer money into my Paypal account for some reason.

Sure. While PayPal is the form most personally convenient to me, past party fees have been paid both by check and cash physically mailed to me, and we can try to work out some other method if you like.

Benito's provincial assembly elections are by party, but it doesn't have to be a registered national party. Just pick a "party name" and announce you're running under that banner.

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 23, 2021, 05:18:12 PM
Is there any link available to the latest financial report?

Unfortunately, I've been having severe anxiety attacks every single time I try to compile the thing, so, it doesn't exist.

The current balance total is $1,267.76 (versus the $1,165.34 of the last report one year ago; the increase is about half party fees and half sales and donations, plus a few cents in interest).

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on September 24, 2021, 09:08:18 PM

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 23, 2021, 05:29:33 PM
How many commemorative stamps would be produced for this amount?

The Burgermeister informed me that we could get 1,000 stamps for $140. Therefore we should be able to get at least a couple hundred for $50, even though the unit cost would likely be higher for a smaller order.

Um. I wish you'd specifically asked me. The place I was quoting from (the same place as we got the current stock of stamps made by) actually charges more for their minimum order of 500 ($169.05) than for 1,000 ($140.87). (No, I don't know what the logic is for that pricing, but.)

Quote from: Audrada Roibeardet on August 26, 2021, 04:12:00 PM
Got to thinking about this place a few days ago. I'm not sure why that happen, it was just out of the blue.

Anyhoo, just checking to see if I'm still Talossan. Fairly confident I didn't vote or fill out a census. Was there a census?

Not here to cause trouble, simply enquiring about my status.

Looking at the database, you are still an active citizen.

It's true you have no recorded Census responses, and you didn't vote in the 56th Cosa election, but you cast a vote of PRESENT in the 55th Cosa election, which was held less than two years ago, so you're still a citizen.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on August 25, 2021, 06:52:53 PM
I mean, if you want an argument for excluding the CpI from the convocation (or maybe only allowing them 1 representative member), then you've just made one.

Having seen a potential case of conflict-of-interest, I pointed it out. Whether it's actually an issue of sufficient valence to require addressing, and if so, how to address it, I by necessity leave to the judgment of those who are involved in politics and the legislative process.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on August 25, 2021, 04:31:25 PM

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on August 24, 2021, 06:11:33 PM
(plus there should definitely be some rules to establish what happens if no candidate gets 2/3rd of the vote anyway).

Then the UC continues as a Council of Regency until the Convocation gets its act together. Like what happens with papal elections. A pity we can't actually lock them up and put them on bread-and-water.

I will note that this would create a temptation for members of the CpI (as members of the convocation) to deliberately vote against every candidate for king in order to retain their power as a Council of Regency. Granted, they (we) likely wouldn't have enough votes to do that on their (our) own, but if support for a candidate among the other members wasn't near-unanimous, it could happen.

Went ahead and paid this a few minutes ago.

(If one wants to get fully technical, one could argue I jumped the gun on the "at least 14 days' notice" by a bit more than 16 hours. I will of course recuse myself as a judge from hearing any case brought against me as Burgermeister.)

Per The 55th Cosa Budget, disbursements require notifying the Ziu at least 14 days in advance.  And the renewal dates on our hosting plan and domain name are July 23rd.

I am accordingly informing the Ziu that I do intend to disburse the budgeted funds to those ends in order to renew our hosting and domain name.

The New Particular Way party fee has been received for the 56th Cosa Election.

PAID FEES:

The Free Democrats of Talossa have PAID IN FULL.
The Talossan National Congress has PAID IN FULL.
The Independent Monarchist has PAID IN FULL.
The League of Centre Conservatives have PAID IN FULL.
The King Lüc Party has PAID IN FULL.
The Parti Tafialistà has PAID IN FULL.
The Balançeu (Balance) party has PAID IN FULL.
The New Particular Way has PAID IN FULL.

Official notification that I've received the fee for Ian Tamoran.

Martì-Paír Furxhéir has PAID IN FULL.
Breneir Itravilatx has PAID IN FULL.
Ian Tamoran has PAID IN FULL.

Quote from: xpb on June 14, 2021, 10:44:28 PM

Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on June 14, 2021, 06:26:11 PM
I still need one from/on behalf of Ian Tamoran.

May other citizens pay on behalf?  If so I can forward funds later today such that Cézembre is fully compliant.

As can be seen the in the trimmed version of my original post quoted above, I see no reason that people couldn't pay on behalf of a Senator in the general case, even if it's moot in this case.

I've received two of the three fees from our newly-elected Senators:

Martì-Paír Furxhéir has PAID IN FULL.
Breneir Itravilatx has PAID IN FULL.

I still need one from/on behalf of Ian Tamoran.

The fee is US$5, and payable via PayPal to treasury@talossa.com or stamps@talossa.com; both are addresses on the same PayPal account. Arrangements other than PayPal can be made, that's just the one that's easiest for me to process.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on June 12, 2021, 09:35:34 PM
Istefan, dude, no disrespect, but it seems like, in the last few years, you weren't involved in our province at all.

Socially, I haven't been engaged in Benito or even Talossa, no. I've been carrying out my offices (more or less), and not much more.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on June 12, 2021, 09:35:34 PMYou wouldn't even join the Benito Facebook page I had going on for awhile.

Yeah, see, I log into Facebook something like once every month, to double-check if one of my second cousins or similarly distant relations has gotten married, divorced, or died, and everybody forgot to tell me. I occasionally comment on somebody else's posts while doing the check. The last time I said anything on Facebook, I believe, was on my sister's birthday, when I made a special point of getting on Facebook specifically to tell her "Happy birthday!"

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on June 03, 2021, 08:14:32 PMI thought we used to have a vote for Maestro.

The procedure was and is that we have a vote of the Assembly.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on June 03, 2021, 08:14:32 PMThe Cjováni minority in Benito hereby withdraw from all political activity in our province.

Uh-huh. Given that for at least the last year and two elections literally no one except ESB and I have shown anything resembling any political activity in Benito, I'm wondering how anybody will tell even the slightest difference.

Last Cosa, we officially had three parties represented in the Assembly, but we literally could not find any Benitans other than me and ESB willing to hold seats. And we knew ESB couldn't be Maestro because of Benitan Constitution banned him, and if we'd been playing close enough attention we'd have noticed the Organic Law banned me from being Maestro because I was already Cunstaval of Fiova. If literally anyone else — like YOU — had shown any interest when the parties were trying to fill the seats, that person would have been Maestro for most of the last year, and I wouldn't have even been in the Assembly, since I didn't want any.

And now, with nobody having even bothered to vote for a party other than the NPW, we're getting a passive-aggressive comment about being a bit informal about how it is obvious that the leader of the only party to win any seats in the Assembly, and the only Benitan legally qualified for the Maestro position who had said anything on this board in the last year, is going to be elected Maestro?

The only reason this post isn't full of profanity in reaction is that I keep going back and editing it out of my sentences.

While the votes haven't been officially certified, all the ballots from Benito were cast with PSC verification from different IP addresses, so I foresee no invalidations.

Further, one vote was cast for BENITO, which under custom and precedent is a vote of PRESENT, three were cast PRESENT directly, and all the others were cast for the NPW, so the only possible change to the outcome would be if all four NPW votes were invalidated. The NPW won all eleven seats in the Assembly, and should appoint its members accordingly.

Since they have unanimous control and, with the just-ratified change in the Benitan constitution, they can name their party head Maestro, I suspect we'll have a Maestro as soon as he notices this post.