[Cantzelerïă/Chancery] January 2023 General Election Polling Station

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

--Polling Station 1: Wittenberg—-

This is a polling place. Only use this thread for your votes! (Opinions, questions, comments MUST be posted elsewhere.)

Your vote cannot be changed once cast. Do not edit your posts!

The January 2023 General Elections to elect the 58th Cosa, provincial assemblies and 3 senate seats in addition to the two referenda on amendments to the Organic Law is now active.

*The province  of Vuode is holding its own Senate elections. To vote and for more information please check the provincial forum on Wittenberg.

You can find the election rules here.

Ballots will be sent today. If you do not receive a ballot today, please send me a pm.

If you believe there is something wrong with the ballot, please contact me ASAP.

HOW TO VOTE

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 using voting method 1, 2, or 4* (see below). The database admin will then manually insert your Senate vote into the database.

*In this case, make a new separate post, do not alter your original post.

There are five ways to vote:

• You can reply to their Ballot email with your vote, provided the PSC code is in the email. Those votes will be entered manually into the Database system.
• You can write a different email (to talossachancery@gmail.com), provided the PSC code is in it. Those votes will be entered manually into the Database system.
• You can vote using the online form: www.talossa.ca/files/vote.php using only your citizen number (available online and in the email) and the PSC code from the email. Those votes will be entered automatically into the Database system.
• Voters will be able to vote on Wittenberg publicly A single vote thread (THIS THREAD) will be created for casting votes on Wittenberg. If you have received your vote code (PSC), you are requested to cast your vote in that thread. It is suggested that for privacy purposes you send a PM with your PSC but not post it in the public forum. A vote without PSC will be validated provided the account clearly belongs to a single eligible voter.
• You can print the ballot located here at www.talossa.ca/files/votebymail.php and mail it to the address located at the bottom of the ballot. Keep in mind that votes need to arrive before the election deadline to be valid and voting by mail might take long, especially from a location outside western Europe. (NOTICE: the vote by mail ballot is not fully updated yet.  When voting by mail please keep in mind the instructions on the email ballot or here.)

KEEP IN MIND WHEN VOTING

Especially when voting using a different method than the database, keep in mind the following:

• Part 3: Cosa Election
• Part 5: Referendum
• Part 6: Senate Election
• Part 7: Provincial Election

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• Specify which part you are voting for. Unspecified party votes will only count towards the Cosa election.
• Write-in parties for the Cosa elections cannot receive votes. A write-in vote has the same effect as Present/Invalid.
• For the Senate part, rank as many eligible candidates as you want in order of preference. Do not include one candidate multiple times. Please include a candidate's full name or citizen number. Ambiguous votes may be rejected. Write-In votes for eligible citizens are allowed.
• Party votes do not count in any way for Senate elections.
• 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 using voting method 1, 2, or 4* (see above). The database admin will then manually insert your Senate vote into the database.
• DO NOTE ALTER your original post. ALWAYS create a new post.

WHAT TO VOTE ON

If you vote on Wittenberg, please include the following parts: (On Wittenberg your vote will always be public.)

Part 3: Cosa Election

For the Cosa, please vote for the party you want to vote for.

Five parties have registered:

• DIEN - The Independent Monarchist
• FREEDEMS - Free Democrats of Talossa
• PdR - Parti da Reformaziun
• PT - Parti Tafialistà
• TNC - Talossan National Congress

More information about these parties (50 word statements, leaders, link to party platform, etc) can be found on your ballot, on the online voting form and on the election rules page.

If you do not wish to vote for a party you can also indicate "PRESENT" for the Party Vote. This counts as vote in regards to keeping your citizenship.
(You risk losing your citizenship if you did not vote or take part in a census during the last two years.)

Part 5: Referendum

There are two  referenda this year:

* 57RZ19 - The Seneschal Selection and Reselection Amendment
* 57RZ27 - The Dandelions Start at Fourteen Amendment

You may vote Për (in favour), Contrâ (against), or Abstain on these amendments.
The full texts can be found by clicking the links.

Part 6: Senate Election

Please include your vote for Senator if you are a citizen of any of the following provinces:

• Atatürk
• Benito
• Vuode

To vote for Senate, list 1 or more (the database ballot accepts up to 5) eligible citizens of your province in order of preference!

If you leave this empty your vote will count as abstain and your vote for the other parts will still be valid.
Important: votes for a party do NOT count here. You will need to vote for an individual candidate.

The following candidates have registered for senate seats:
Atatürk: #101 - Martì-Paír Furxhéir, #547 Muhammed Yasir
Benito: #330 - Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu
Vuode: #550 - Tric'hard Lenxheir
Write-in votes for Senate are also allowed

Part 7: Provincial Election

Here you can vote for whichever party you wish to represent you in your provincial assembly. The provincial assembly elections of the following provinces are conducted by the chancery:

- Atatürk

- Benito
(For the Benito Legislative Assembly, please vote for a party, or PRESENT if you wish to cast a null ballot.)

- Florencia
(Vote for a party or vote "present")

- Fiova
Ranked choice voting, same as for Senators

If you leave this empty your vote will count as abstain and your vote for the other parts will still be valid.

WHEN TO VOTE

Any time between the morning of 14 January, 2023 and 1 February, 2023 19:30 TST (UTC-5) (This corresponds to 19:30 in Milwaukee (WI), USA)

HAPPY VOTING EVERYONE!


Sir Txec dal Nordselvă
Secretary of State

PS for those interested: here you can find who have and have not voted yet.
Current turnout: 99 (71.74%)

Also,  here(TBD) is a list of citizen numbers of citizens who are at risk of losing their citizenship at the end of the election.

Lastly, please just use this thread for voting. For questions, concerns, etc you can use this thread. Additionally, this thread should be treated as a polling station. This is not the place for campaigning or political arguments.

EMAIL DATABASE FOR ALL CITIZENS

53RZ23 established a database of name, province and email address of all citizens who opt-in, available to every citizen. This has not been automated yet. If you wish to be included in this database please contact the Secretary of State on Witt or send an email to talossachancery@gmail.com stating that you wish to be included in the database for all citizens.[/list][/list]

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

We are aware of a problem with the emailed ballots. MPF is attempting a fix. If you use gmail your ballot was blocked by Google. MPF is working on the problem. If you need your psc to vote on the database, PM me and I'll send it to you.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I would like to cast my vote proudly for the Talossan National Congress. 

As to 57RZ19, The Seneschal Selection and Reselection Amendment, I vote për.
As to 57RZ27, The Dandelions Start at Fourteen Amendment, I vote për.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

My national and provincial vote are cast for the Talossan National Congress.

On 57RZ19, The Seneschal Selection and Reselection Amendment, I vote për.
On 57RZ27, The Dandelions Start at Fourteen Amendment, I vote për.

[Francesco Manzella]

Good evening my friends. My vote are cast for the Talossan National Congress.

Thank very much to Breneir Tzaracomprada for your constant presence, for the updates and for the efforts you make for this wonderful community

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

Good evening my friends. My vote are cast for the Talossan National Congress.

Thank very much to Breneir Tzaracomprada for your constant presence, for the updates and for the efforts you make for this wonderful community

The voting thread is for votes only, not campaigning.

Also, do you have votes for the 2 referendums?

[Ian Plätschisch]

Cosa: Free Democrats of Talossa
RZ19: PËR
RZ27: PËR

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

FYI until the email issue is resolved, anyone who voted on the database with their PSC will receive an SMTP error upon submitting their vote. This simply means no confirmation email was sent, but the vote will still be recorded.

[Munditenens Tresplet]

Cosa: Dien
RZ19: Per
RZ27: Per

[Tric'hard Lenxheir]

I cast my Cosa vote for the TNC

As to 57RZ19 I vote Per

As to 57RZ27 I vote Per

Vuode Senate election I vote for Tric'hard Lenxheir

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Part 3: Cosa Election
I vote for TNC - Talossan National Congress.

Part 5: Referendum
I vote Për for 57RZ19, The Seneschal Selection and Reselection Amendment
I vote Për for 57RZ27, The Dandelions Start at Fourteen Amendment

[King John]

PRESENT

-- John R

[mximo]

I Mximo Carbonel.

Vote for the TNC for Cosa and provincial vote.

I vote per for both référendum

Mximo

[Erisson M Silva]

My national and provincial vote are cast for the TNC - Talossan National Congress.

On 57RZ19, I vote për.
On 57RZ27, I vote për.

:)

[Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB]

FYI for those who vote publicly, when I click "like" on your vote in this thread, that indicates I've entered the vote in the database.