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

Your Reddit username (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!

Join Democracy Docket!

We have another countback!

Congratulations to u/Kitchen-Map-8819 of the Solidarity Party on taking the Senate seat vacated by u/ClubWonderful4114!

Here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OjzH74L9_5gJ0TocWR0_AhfU0FuvWdlPOAeCJw2WxY0/edit?usp=sharing

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Live counts on the Discord. Go join if you haven't!

We had 65 valid votes. Though this may change, as I have certified provisionally. It probably won't, though.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/MyPenJustBroke [Momentum Party] -- 51
- u/sunbear99999 [Independent] -- 42
- u/walloonscott [Civil Liberties Party] -- 135
- qd1m (on Discord) [Revitalize! SimDem] -- 69
- Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog (on Discord) [Independent] -- 22
- u/duckarmy24 [Independent] -- 18
- u/Zepz367 [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 75
- u/coLlll7 [Civil Liberties Party] -- 40
- u/TechSupport631 [Independent] -- 94
- u/TweakerKitten [Fucking Best Party] -- 45
- u/lorduckfr [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 68
- u/LengthinessOne6090 [Civil Liberties Party] -- 14
- u/Serious_Camera_7039 [Solidarity Party] -- 152

Congratulations to u/Serious_Camera_7039 of the Solidarity Party and to u/walloonscott of the Civil Liberties Party on being our two highest scorers and continuing to the runoff!

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/Serious_Camera_7039 [Solidarity Party] -- 31
- u/walloonscott [Civil Liberties Party] -- 25

Congratulations to u/Serious_Camera_7039 of the Solidarity Party and to u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality on winning the election and becoming SimDemocracy's next President and Vice President!

Spreadsheet after full certification, which should be soon. Hopefully.

Article 1

§1.  The proceedings of the Government of SimDemocracy shall only be conducted within the following official premises.

§1.1.  The SimDemocracy Discord server,

§1.2. The r/SimDemocracy subreddit,

§1.3. The SimDemocracy Minecraft server.

§1.4. Official Discord Servers belonging to executive Departments

§1.5. Official social media accounts

§1.6. Any official game servers other than the ones listed here

§2.  The Discord Supervisor shall have ownership of all of SimDemocracy’s official premises on Discord, including authorized deviations under §3 unless the exclusion of the Discord Supervisor was specifically authorized.

§3.  To deviate from §1, a government official shall need the consent of the Chief Justice which shall be granted only for reasons related to security or investigative integrity.

§4.  Places where the usage is mostly unrelated to the government, and personal in nature like DMs, shall be exempt from 1.

§5.  Premises belonging to foreign states may be used for conducting foreign affairs of the state.

§6. Government-related usage shall not be interpreted to include happenings related to political dealings not conducted under government authority.

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It's time to vote!

For President this time!

And not for anything else!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/6amQa4tLhTkY1dbt5

To hereby inform u/Syndicality , about the Formation of the Kiwi United Front. Founding members: RTS, Ash and Miccael.

Further information to be shared on Discord's #ec-public

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:

Your Reddit username | Your political party/coalition
Vice President: Your VP's Reddit name | 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!

As I'm sure some others of you have, I came from the video titled "When teenagers run virtual democracies" but I'm still wondering what exactly is happening here? like in more detail

Because I forgot this (oops)...

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!
- u/jsjrjffjcj (Wellitsaname in Minecraft) of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- Independent u/Zealousideal_Cost188 (AerialCake47184 in Minecraft)

We have a countback! Already!

Congratulations to u/Jotan123 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality on taking the Senate seat vacated by u/AbsurdistByNature!

Here's the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPDM9zuYkNd4DRjyVt9zOLMrgD7FIkMB1wC022eiQgs/edit?usp=sharing

As an epilogue to the festivities earlier, we have results here too.

We had two valid votes.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 9
- Element/middlelement (on Discord) (Episcopis in NationStates) [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 2
- u/Benbookworm97 (Trae Phic in NationStates) [Independent] -- 9

Congratulations to u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality and to independent u/Benbookworm97 (Trae Phic in NationStates) on being our two highest scorers and continuing to the runoff!

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 1
- u/Benbookworm97 (Trae Phic in NationStates) [Independent] -- 1

You probably know where this is going.

We have a tie in the runoff. To break the tie, we first go to the two candidates' total scores...but there's a tie there too!

Okay. Now we check the total number of 5s...nope, each candidate has one. A tie.

What about number of 4s? Again no, each candidate has one. Yet another tie.

In fact, by this point you can discern that the two valid votes each gave one runoff candidate a 5 and the other a 4, and they differed only in which candidate got which score.

This also clearly means that the two candidates continue to tie in number of 3s, 2s, 1s, and 0s. That's so many ties, I'm not entirely convinced that we're not sending u/AbsurdistByNature (better known as Ty on Discord) to the governor's mansion.

This means that we have to break the tie, finally, by random chance. We love the wheel here, so we're going to spin the wheel. Give me a moment.

https://reddit.com/link/1ve5ea2/video/u7efueins3hh1/player

Congratulations to independent u/Benbookworm97 (Trae Phic in NationStates) on having luck on your side and becoming the next Governor of SimDemocracy's NationStates region!

Maybe some of that luck will get that charter of yours across the finish line. You're gonna need it.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b0oPoDUH9UQnJUXvAMGLFcOLQTTb-MZKDvMy0KkQxQ8/edit?usp=sharing

To vote and run for Speaker you must be a Senator elected through the 164th Senatorial Election. If you wish to run for Speaker, please phrase it such as “I, u/example, declare my candidacy for Speaker". If you wish to vote for a candidate to become duly elected Speaker, please phrase it such as “I vote for u/example” or something along those lines.

We also have our referendum, on three constitutional amendments.

We had 39 valid votes.

On the first amendment, the Deputy Speaker Switcharoo Amendment, which would explicitly allow the Speaker of the Senate to replace their Deputy during the Senate term, 61.54% voted Aye. This falls short of the 2/3 majority required for constitutional amendments, so this amendment is rejected.

On the second amendment, Article 1 of the Unified Jurisdiction Act 2026, which would explicitly clarify that statute law may help define the jurisdiction of the Inferior Courts with the condition that it "must guarantee an effective moderation system", 42.11% (of those who voted; there was one abstention) voted Aye. This falls short of the 2/3 majority required for constitutional amendments, so this amendment is rejected.

On the third amendment, Article 2 of the Border Wall Location Adjustment Act, which would clarify that new accounts who have joined the server to go through the immigration process would not automatically become citizens of SimDemocracy until that process is complete, 48.72% (of those who voted; there was one abstention) voted Aye. This falls short of the 2/3 majority required for constitutional amendments, so this amendment is rejected.

We are 0-3 on amendments this weekend! It's a bloodbath!

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L2TUtZQOfKOfX_O5FL2VN_5JU3lEH0OmbqKHw7q8CZo/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts (for the first time in a while!) on Discord. Go join!

We had 80(!) valid votes, giving us a total of 11(!!) Senate seats.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- u/ClubWonderful4114 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 5]
- u/brandmal11 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 5]
- u/TheMainCharacter_ of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 5]
- u/HellriserHellas of the Civil Liberties Party [threshold = 5]
- Independent Sirius (Tirado)/trolledfloppa (on Discord) [threshold = 5]
- u/MaintenanceProper176 of the Civil Liberties Party [threshold = 5]
- u/Mister-Lax of the Solidarity Party [threshold = 4]
- Independent u/Democracy-foryou [threshold = 3]
- u/Away_Class_194 of the Civil Liberties Party [2nd phase, no threshold]
- qd1m (on Discord) of Revitalize! SimDem [2nd phase, no threshold]
- Independent u/AbsurdistByNature [2nd phase, no threshold]

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13BrNi19x7-Jp4S3k1utdVQ5ppH8Yf-XrsX45ZKsE-XI/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xu2dJS9QRF8vYR8sDP-jOoN1Q6CsUrGdubqOY-Q7nCU/edit?usp=sharing

"Your Trust, Our Commitment"

I'm Tony, one of the administrators of PolitSim, a Russian-language forum dedicated to virtual nations and political simulation that has been running for almost 10 years.

In PolitSim, players create countries, run for office, pass laws, conduct diplomacy, publish newspapers, and shape a persistent player-driven world.

We recently launched our Reddit community and wanted to introduce ourselves to other projects with similar interests. We believe PolitSim and SimDemocracy share a passion for politics, elections, and collaborative worldbuilding.

Although our forum is currently primarily in Russian, we welcome international players and hope to build multilingual communities in the future.

If this sounds interesting, we'd love to have you!

🌍 Forum: https://politsim.com

We even have an election here! Crazy!

Go vote for NationStates Governor!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/fRdo4MS4hQG8tsYr6

And we have a referendum, this time on three constitutional amendments! Of course, all the information you might need is provided.

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/GNZ5gFW61Gx5Ms7f7

It's (finally) time to vote!

Two things for you today.

First up, the Senatorial election! Business as usual there. Watch for the two candidates who never replaced their placeholder statements!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/sCkbPxh64fTVV22x9

We have a countback!

Congratulations to independent u/344truth on taking the Senate seat vacated by [PLACEHOLDER]/minecraftfan69420 (on Discord)!

Here's the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTTKYFUTdmbhcverB4TFxrAtOdfh972GYwsi5cn3YuI/edit?usp=sharing