[Cantzelerïă/Chancery] Preparing for the 58th Cosa General Election

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

Just as a friendly reminder, TODAY January 13, 2023 is the ABSOLUTE LAST DAY for any parties to UPDATE or REGISTER for the 58th General Election. Any updates received after midnight TST will be ignored.

Also, TOMORROW January 14, 2023 is the ABSOLUTE LAST DAY for Senatorial candidates registrations as well as ANY OTHER UPDATES to the election. After that point, I will be activating the election on Sunday, January 15 before noon, Pacific time (probably earlier but just in case I'm sleeping off my birthday celebrations I'll give myself a little grace!).

Sir Txec dal Nordselva
Secretary of State

[Ian Plätschisch]

I would like to add the following amendment statements to the Free Democrat registration (as Secretary of the party, hopefully I am authorized to do so):

RZ19: The current process for selecting the Seneschal often results in a lot of wasted time . This amendment speeds it up without changing the outcome.

RZ27: Right now, Dandelions (children of Talossan citizens) automatically become citizens themselves. But when a parent loses citizenship, any minor children they may have keep theirs - and we can't contact them to confirm if they want it. This amendment means Dandelions must CONSENT to become citizens upon their 14th birthday.

Link to Platform: https://wiki.talossa.com/Free_Democrats_of_Talossa#Party_Policy

[Mic’haglh Autófil, SMC EiP]

Full Party Name: Parti da Reformaziun

Party Initials: PdR

50-Word Statement: "The PdR Continues to advocate for rational responses to political issues facing the nation, and for reforms that make for a more equal society in which Talossans can participate. The difference between government before our involvement and with our involvement show that we will push for results for you."

Party Leader: Mic'haglh Autofil

Candidate list:

• Mic'haglh Autofil
• Alexandreu Promine

Party Platform URL: Click Here for the Goods!

Edit -- Statement on RZ19: "This amendment streamlines the process by which the Seneschal is chosen, and uses the same method already in place which is used to select the Tuischac'h. This commonsense reform is worth supporting."

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

All party registrations have been entered and finalized.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Was the PdR registration too late, or why aren't they on the ballot?

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

They were registered in time and show as a registered party in the database. They should be on the ballot, but I've also not seen the ballot as my own was one of them that could not get sent.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

They were registered in time and show as a registered party in the database. They should be on the ballot, but I've also not seen the ballot as my own was one of them that could not get sent.

I asked because the polling station posts lists only four registered parties (TNC, DIEN, FreeDem, PT) amd I was wondering if the PdR were left out deliberately or by accident.

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

They were registered in time and show as a registered party in the database. They should be on the ballot, but I've also not seen the ballot as my own was one of them that could not get sent.

I asked because the polling station posts lists only four registered parties (TNC, DIEN, FreeDem, PT) amd I was wondering if the PdR were left out deliberately or by accident.

Entirely my fault. I prepared  that posting before they registered 30 minutes before the deadline. I thought I had updated the document but I guess not. I've fixed the Witt post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

A problem exists with the database that makes it currently unable to send ballots to anyone with a gmail account. As soon as I tried to send ballots this morning, I noticed that they all bounced back. I immediately alerted MPF and he is working on a solution.

Any citizen who contacts me via email or better still via Witt PM can request their PSC which will allow them to vote on the database.

I will alert everyone as soon as ballots are able to be emailed. My sincere apologies, as the Chancery could not have foreseen this amid all the usual preparation for the election.

- Sir Txec dal Nordselva
Secretary of State

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Is there any way anyone can help?

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

Is there any way anyone can help?

MPF is the one who needs help as he works to fix the problem.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

There's 170 voters. If two people helped you, we'd only need to manually send 57 emails. That's very doable. Is that maybe a good way to go right now?

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

The problem is that each voter has a unique PSC which would have to be inserted as well as specific information per province. I don't have a generic ballot that can be sent either as it is formed automatically by the database. I don't have the ability to login and manually generate ballots. Perhaps MPF has this ability but I do not have total control of the database and never have. There are many things I cannot do. I'm not making excuses, but I don't know how I could do it.

Then there's the whole issue of PSC and the privacy of them. Anyone could vote for anyone else if they knew that number. That could throw the whole elections integrity out the window.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Yeah, I guess it would just have to be directions on how to vote on Wittenberg either through PM or publicly. Just trying to think through possibilities, I guess.

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

I appreciate the thought. I sent out a generic email with instructions this morning. I'm hoping the ballots themselves can go out soon.

Next election hopefully we'll have figured out a better method so we can avoid this in the future.