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

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on August 16, 2026, 03:17:59 PMQuick question, what happened with this?

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on July 13, 2026, 08:41:39 AMprobably staying out of politics as I really don't think I am cut out for it

This way I can be involved but not beholding to anyone. I can vote my conscience on any issue. I am not a member of any party and I will not get involved in anyone elses political fight. I simply vote on the issues.

Respectfully, there is information that is not public.  I'm not going to argue the point right now, but I do think it's important to take things like this seriously and vigorously, no matter who is involved.  If it turns out to have been a mistake, that's the best version of events and what I hope to have happened.

I do not think that any of this casts a shadow on the Chancery, either way.  The Chancery has performed in an exemplary manner the whole way through.  It is not the job of the Secretary of State to check every link in every message sent by political parties.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on August 16, 2026, 03:13:01 PMAs a member of the Talossan Bar, I would like to register a formal protest at the Seneschál's aggressive announcements on this matter.  By far the most likely explanation here is that a citizen who was completely clueless about how the Database works clicked in good faith a link which was supposed to allow them to vote without reading it. Angry growls of you know who you are are likely to discourage cooperation with this investigation.

Everyone knows that I'm not particularly well inclined to the political leader involved, but I had no idea what the PSC at the end of the link entailed. Neither - and this is crucial - did the Secretary of State, who republished the "BREN" mailer on Wittenberg verbatim. And the SoS has just pointed out that there is no longer anything on the ballot which would have indicated it belonged to anyone else. The apparent presumption of the Government that a felony has been convicted will therefore have the effect of casting a shadow on the Chancery itself.

The Kingdom has @Munditenens Tresplet to thank for noticing what happened and telling me.

I second this statement.

You can't just jump to conclusions and assume that the person is a criminal. How do you want to prove that there was malicious intent? How do you even want to get proof of that? This behaviour is eerily similar to that of the Law and Justice party in Poland.

Quick question, what happened with this?

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on July 13, 2026, 08:41:39 AMprobably staying out of politics as I really don't think I am cut out for it

As a member of the Talossan Bar, I would like to register a formal protest at the Seneschál's aggressive announcements on this matter.  By far the most likely explanation here is that a citizen who was completely clueless about how the Database works clicked in good faith a link which was supposed to allow them to vote without reading it. Angry growls of you know who you are are likely to discourage cooperation with this investigation.

Everyone knows that I'm not particularly well inclined to the political leader involved, but I had no idea what the PSC at the end of the link entailed. Neither - and this is crucial - did the Secretary of State, who republished the "BREN" mailer on Wittenberg verbatim. And the SoS has just pointed out that there is no longer anything on the ballot which would have indicated it belonged to anyone else. The apparent presumption of the Government that a felony has been convicted will therefore have the effect of casting a shadow on the Chancery itself.

The Kingdom has @Munditenens Tresplet to thank for noticing what happened and telling me.

Quote from: King Txec on August 16, 2026, 01:50:34 PMThe Clerk of Courts hasn't been in Witt in close to four months.

-Txec R

Yes.  If too much time passes, their job is automatically vacated and they will be replaced.

But also if they don't respond in a timely manner, their deputy can act in their stead (and they can also lose their post without the wait, if His Majesty believes they're not fulfilling their duties).  Maybe this will be the thing that draws them back to activity?

Have to follow the rules, ultimately!

The Clerk of Courts hasn't been in Witt in close to four months.

-Txec R

I don't think it's reasonable to expect either that the offender will, in fact, know who they are, or that they will even see these posts.

After preliminary investigations, a charging instrument has been submitted to the Clerk of Corts.  We have worked with the Chancery to obtain a considerable amount of evidence, and we have further been contacted by people who wished to exclude themselves from the investigation.

It is not too late to come forward if you know something about this or if you want to acknowledge that you perhaps made a mistake.