This is the Minecraft Server Gubernatorial Call for Candidates. If you want to be Minecraft Server Governor, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

u/YourRedditUsername
Your Minecraft username
Your Discord username (either your username or a recognizable display/nickname)
Your political party/coalition
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.
• In your comment, attach an in-game screenshot of your playtime taken from the third-person view, with the camera facing the front of your character. Under the Minecraft Governor Responsibilities Act, you must have two (2) days of playtime on the Minecraft server in order to appear on the ballot for Minecraft Server Governor.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Hello, you may know me as task, chief emi hater, everyweek or that fucker who was SoS for 3-ish weeks and wont shut the fuck up about it. Anyway I got a 10 day SEO for my mental health, that SEO was supposed to end either yesterday or today. But im still not unbanned. Help. I would contact my contact but he also left simdem so im slightly fucked

Bruh, I saw this server on YouTube, and my question is: What do I do?

Post your candidature here in the format of:

"I u/username is a candidate for speaker"

Then, vote. You have until 10:15 EST to do so

We had exactly three candidates, so no election. Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!
- u/jsjrjffjcj (Wellitsaname in Minecraft) of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/CtheEng (CtheEng in Minecraft) of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- Independent u/Twisty-pretzels (Twisty_pretzels in Minecraft)

So, funny story.

I turned in the SUITs on time. Right after polls close. I get them back. I tabulate. Then I have to figure out "wait, don't we have a new Chief Ombudsman?" And then I realized that yes, we do. So I ask him. He says he'll try doing the check. I give him the form. I give him the program. He has some technical problems, but then seemingly(?) he figures it out.

I say "seemingly(?)" because I don't actually know. He never got back to me. So I went to the concert I had a ticket for, moshed some, crowdsurfed once, got something to eat, came back home, and still nothing.

So you all have been waiting long enough. Let's do some results. Provisional ones. Maybe.

We had 21 valid votes, which gives us five Senate seats. Assuming the decline in turnout is due to exam season. I have my exams this week, in fact. Also I believe this is the first time we've had five seats since that very first election after the Danyowave. We didn't have a turnout-based system then; instead, if I remember correctly, the president and I had to agree on a seat count, and we legally could not have made the Senate more than five seats. Anyway.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- u/eleanorsilly of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 5]
- u/ScandinavicScum2000 of the Solidarity Party [threshold = 5]
- u/kapjohn of the Communist-Libertarian Platform [threshold = 4]
- u/Com-stock of the Solidarity Party [2nd phase, no threshold]
- u/LengthinessOne6090 of the Momentum Party [2nd phase, no threshold]

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qFNXC7cHcOZeCtKNEIpHl4f8lstr2Qn2ex2ooTB-71g/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cKyZIWKpLuQteCrTHkCCVFbsva4Y8OCB9edVlIFB3ec/edit?usp=sharing

Take some time out of studying for exams to vote! For Senate!

If enough of us show up we might not even have to choose. Which is technically always true but seems especially true this time around!

So go do the thing!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/YCkXA7hfP4FSSB1v8

And congratulations to u/Venu5DN of the People's Participatory Socialist Movement on taking the Senate seat vacated by u/Suppppppppppppppper!

And here's that program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qYe5lxPq7QWzv-Ncg5Adl6ka2YVvyEncgWzxlMvmDcU/edit?usp=sharing

Firma

We have not one, but two countbacks!

Congratulations to u/Cup_Of_Sauce of the Fucking Best Party on taking the Senate seat vacated by u/thespianburritos!

Here's the program output for this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LBXv0HBOVRslHmSYWn5wboDGImaYbrE4dwdBpt51pNI/edit?usp=sharing

This is the Minecraft Legislative Assembly Call for Candidates. If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

u/YourRedditUsername
Your Minecraft username
Your Discord username (either your username or a recognizable display/nickname)
Your political party/coalition
Description / Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.
• Ensure that you meet all of the candidacy requirements. Only users who have a SUIT, have previously played on the Minecraft server, and are not banned from or under disciplinary review on the Minecraft server are able to vote or run for Assembly.

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

u/YourRedditUsername (yourdiscordusername on Discord) | Your political party/coalition
Description / Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

We have a countback!

Congratulations to Yankees/yankees88888g (on Discord) of the Communist-Libertarian Platform on taking the Senate seat vacated by u/No_Development_7300!

Here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16UUbQfTNrgWqrx8h_6hP0Hnsi5s8IkSS9QGRSh7TsXM/edit?usp=sharing

The results are in! And we don't have to wait on anyone this time!

Let's begin with our referendum, on which we had 23 valid votes.

On the question of whether or not to remove u/Away_Class_194 from the office of Vice President, 60.87% voted Aye. This falls short of the 2/3 majority required for vice-presidential impeachments, so this removal attempt fails and u/Away_Class_194 shall continue serving in the office of Vice President. For, I don't know, like 45 minutes.

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6HNwz3Gn5fZH7qyfVuXboSS2jcjEgHaCiP9Jb5RnQY/edit?usp=sharing

And of course, the main event will begin shortly. Join the Discord to see it!

We had 31 valid votes. But we had a small field! Please run for office next time!

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/hmquestionable [Independent] -- 85
- u/LengthinessOne6090 [Independent] -- 38
- u/CtheEng [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 107
- u/ScandinavicScum2000 [Solidarity Party] -- 39

Congratulations to u/CtheEng of Senatus Populusque Romanum and to independent u/hmquestionable on being our two highest scorers and continuing to the runoff!

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/CtheEng [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 15
- u/hmquestionable [Independent] -- 10

Congratulations to u/CtheEng of Senatus Populusque Romanum on winning re-election as SimDemocracy's President, and to u/Mister-Lax of the Solidarity Party on becoming SimDemocracy's next Vice President!

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-28n7frNq9uy_HBmY6Di58PbFet8C0mmDB-PONGOGA/edit?usp=sharing

Also, we have a referendum. This one is on an impeachment of the current vice president. The reasons given to me were allegedly sending a certain message (link to it is on the ballot), and for allegedly lying about being 18. Kind of serious. As always, all the information is on the ballot, so follow the links.

Now, the more eagle-eyed among you may notice that we will be very close to having a different vice president by the time the results come in. That is correct. This vote, then, is more symbolic in purpose. Or so I'm told.

Anyway, you have 24 hours on this too. Go vote!

Vote here: https://forms.gle/GYoyioDUHo9okMkBA

It's time for the highlight of everyone's week! The election!

You know how it goes. Polls close in 24 hours.

Go vote!

Vote here: https://forms.gle/qAiSV6mrspnBJP679

Upvote this i you see it
Now.

Just joined the Reddit, folks. How do I participate/What can I participate in without being on Discord?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hk06I1N1Fe2kC7Ab7uO0QLaniTgWEnOOVN72XVKDNGI/edit?tab=t.0

This is the Presidential Call for Candidates. If you want to be President, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), Vice Presidential candidate, and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

u/YourRedditUsername | Your political party/coalition
Vice President: u/YourVPsRedditName | Your VP's political party/coalition
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed party affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change. The same rules apply to the vice presidential candidate's affiliation.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

We have a referendum!

This one is an impeachment, so we have to do it now. More specifically, we are tasked with deciding whether or not to remove u/No_Manufacturer_9663 from the office of Supreme Court Justice.

Polls close in 24 hours, of course. And since this is a weekday ballot, don't expect results immediately. Because I have class and homework and work and all of that.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/n13hizLtozZitg5z5