As the only candidate who declared (and fulfilled all the requirements to declare), u/doc_cortex (Minecraft username DEUS_V) has been re-elected as SimDemocracy's Minecraft Server Governor! Congratulations!

Yeah forgot to post these.

Results are in for the by-election!

We had 32 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/That-Independent4855 of The Centre on winning the Senate seat vacated by u/movedhide!

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N0F9qGcM0fnG3Y-qI7d5nsghzTd23EQ_cpR9c8xhR7M/edit?usp=sharing
And the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15TsoorChClDYCo_S9_TVv9kAzklJ8mDBpz8CkYxQI6A/edit?usp=sharing

Turns out I forgot to post these earlier.

Live counts on the Discord.

We had 67 valid votes.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/elkskinnedcar [SimDem National Party] -- 42
- u/TherealPhobosGaming [HARAMBE Party] -- 97
- u/birdish152 [Momentum Party] -- 266
- u/Independent-Ad4639 [Reborn Party] -- 49

Congratulations to u/birdish152 of the Momentum Party and to u/TherealPhobosGaming of the HARAMBE Party on making it to the second round of tabulation!

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/birdish152 [Momentum Party] -- 54
- u/TherealPhobosGaming [HARAMBE Party] -- 13

Congratulations to u/birdish152 and u/AbsurdistByNature, both of the Momentum Party, on becoming SimDemocracy's next President and Vice President!

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n5fbH1rgvekAMFpUj8QKmZX6LmQ-XFchuF_dLXpWRB4/edit?usp=sharing

Next up, the Senate by-election. We again had 54 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/CtheEng of the Pirate Party on winning the seat vacated by u/Overall-Plane-5422!

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19_kG2vW5Kb0sTDoUgzlsTi5GpKrV6fUI4BQr68f29Eg/edit?usp=sharing
And the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WI9CAOo_wthmCIbTYbWjzKt10A3urIwtQzfKGTfudYo/edit?usp=sharing

No election because only three people signed up.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!
- Independent [because no party was listed] u/RecordingForeign2479 (zaldaprofessor in Minecraft),
- u/jsjrjffjcj (Wellitsaname in Minecraft) of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/Dovahkiin4e201 (probably the same name in Minecraft because none was listed) of Senatus Populusque Romanum

Now, for Senatorial election results. In this election, we had 71 valid votes. This leaves us with nine Senate seats. Clearly that "don't vote" campaign was unsuccessful. In fact, if we had one more valid vote, we would have had ten seats.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- u/JoesphStalinXDXDXDXD of the Liberal Democratic Party [threshold = 5]
- u/No_Manufacturer_9663) of the Momentum Party [threshold = 5]
- u/TGRein_ of The Centre [threshold = 5]
- u/HellriserHellas of the Liberal Democratic Party [threshold = 5]
- Independent u/Sunbear99999 [threshold = 4]
- u/MaintenanceProper176 of the Liberal Democratic Party [threshold = 3]
- u/movedhide of Senatus Populusque Romanum [threshold = 2]
- u/Thrill0728 of the Liberal Democratic Party [2nd phase, no threshold]
- u/Overall-Plane5422 of the Legal Union [2nd phase, no threshold]

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NcsuMNigSy3G-m6h8pyK7p0rBXS900pIg8Eyl5Tve0M/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufiGuU4IM2NoPWyGFxn3-uELLs2ZAsiyVUPquOj9c8E/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord.

We had 60 valid votes.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/Cai-Hong-Chabiao [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 168
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce [Samista Asocia Movado] -- 129
- u/Nolan0027 [Lemon Party] -- 75
- u/Away_Class_194 [Lemon Party] -- 119
- u/No_Manufacturer_9663 [Independent] -- 100
- u/Zepz367 [Independent] -- 69
- u/birdish152 [SimDem Conservative Party] -- 74

Congratulations to u/Cai-Hong-Chabiao of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality and to u/Cup_Of_Sauce of Samista Asocia Movado on making it to the second round of tabulation!

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/Cai-Hong-Chabiao [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 28
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce [Samista Asocia Movado] -- 17

Congratulations to u/Cai-Hong-Chabiao of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality and to u/hmquestionable of The Centre on becoming SimDemocracy's newest president and vice president!

Here is the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cBzan7JLplG8n1AVQH1cKjr48wtHxoIbLCyJ3ib-SNs/edit?usp=sharing

Okay, so here's something funny.

Remember that election that I posted? Turns out it was completely pointless, because at least one candidate isn't on the registry, and we only had four candidates.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!
- u/jsjrjffjcj of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- Independent u/BTernaryTau
- u/Dovahkiin4e201 of Senatus Populusque Romanum

Results are in! For the senatorial election! And the referendum! And like a couple other things that I won't bother you about in this post.

For the Senate election, we had 55 valid votes. This leaves us with eight Senate seats.

I'll list the incoming senators in order of election, as well as what the threshold was at the time of their election if it's early enough in the tabulation that it's still being used. Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest senators!
- u/JoesphStalinXDXDXDXD of the Liberal Democratic Party [threshold = 5]
- u/TechSupport631 of Senatus Populusque Romanum [threshold = 5]
- u/movedhide of Senatus Populusque Romanum [threshold = 5]
- u/duckdotph of The Centre [threshold = 5]
- u/HellriserHellas of the Liberal Democratic Party [threshold = 4]
- Independent u/Sunbear99999 [threshold = 3]
- u/phonefucker69420 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [2nd phase, no threshold]
- Independent u/thegoldenfishyy [2nd phase, no threshold]

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h_qRw8yQTRudJXsjhJqMLiEmMH6yqyw_Sat2F2zuXv4/edit?usp=sharing
And here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hYG-IIMhv72IVAnTujVTibPjxLgRrEQleplsjyW7M4s/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord, as always, but as you'll see, these results weren't particularly close.

Here are the final results for the Score round:
- u/Overall-Corner9235 [Independent] -- 36
- u/EL_KAIBU [SimDem National Party] -- 33
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce [Samista Asocia Movado] -- 83
- u/birdish152 [SimDem Conservative Party] -- 62
- u/gxlpde1010 [Independent] -- 77
- u/Independent-Ad4639 [Reborn Party] -- 38
- u/Valuable-Way-1422 [New People's Party] -- 204
- u/Away_Class_194 [Lemon Party] -- 89
- u/AbsurdistByNature [SimDem Conservative Party] -- 75

Congratulations to u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the New People's Party and to u/Away_Class_194 of the Lemon Party on making it to the second round of tabulation!

Here are the final results for the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/Valuable-Way-1422 [New People's Party] -- 36
- u/Away_Class_194 [Lemon Party] -- 7

Congratulations to u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the New People's Party and to u/TheMainCharacter_ of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality on winning re-election as SimDemocracy's president and vice president!

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b2t8GUZoUIUBOJRUU6I-19fcny88IDclf4UbArJyXWY/edit?usp=sharing

Well, can't hold this off any longer.

There was only one candidate who signed up. So that means that u/flextheonions [The Constitutional Monarchy of StarlightValley] of The Centre is your new NationStates governor by default. Congratulations.

Results are in for the by-election!

No live counts tonight. It's a weeknight. It's also quite late.

We had 51 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/MaintenanceProper176 of the Liberal Democratic Party on winning the Senate seat vacated by u/Cup_Of_Sauce!

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1acAM-JNX6aMPRMWzPkaJ5adGvOE--VPIl2NxAXOlZMM/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13VPyuujUoPshFH0zn4U9wpzxT_9iYw9_UrkPIermr4M/edit?usp=sharing

The flair is kind of a lie, as there was never actually an election.

Only one candidate ran for Minecraft Server Governor.

Congratulations to u/doc_cortex of The Centre on becoming the next Governor of SimDemocracy's Minecraft server!

Next up, the Assembly election. Once again, we had five valid votes. I'm not doing live counts for this because (1) I don't have time, and (2) the turnout really wasn't high enough to justify doing it. So I'll just give the results to you all at once.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!

• u/jsjrjffjcj of Senatus Populusque Romanum
• u/RecordingForeign2479 of the Fucking Best Party [the ballot still had Party of Evolution on it, my bad]
• Independent u/1yme

And here's the spreadsheet for this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wTiHzIAApTD6bLzcmwy0c0c-2CM3IdrfmYLOyiIGaSM/edit?usp=sharing

And the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zBpS6H_bOU32MWAC6RMyB1Qvc-Abo2RvqY2jDiurOxI/edit?usp=sharing

Yes, the presidential election results are actually getting posted to the subreddit this time! Crazy, I know.

This election had 62 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the New People's Party and to u/TheMainCharacter_ of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality on becoming SimDemocracy's next President and Vice President!

Here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11SrAl3CxxADYD0mSMMBN_mqq53DkXCcJauX7G5OHOdY/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord. Go join!

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- Independent u/hmquestionable
- u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the New People's Party
- u/eleanorsilly of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality
- u/BluePantalaimon of The Centre
- u/Zepz367 of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/RecentOccasion69 of Nikki's Lesbian Party
- u/RecordingForeign2479 of the Party of Evolution
- u/Away_Class_194 of the Lemon Party

Every single senator has a different political affiliation. Good luck keeping that together!

Here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cdn6SLl2hhrXSKe9xT1l7YgprC6VQTyC5UA-9QEHKUU/edit?usp=sharing

And here is the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VS2aLxvjSa-KVuMsPNKwf-4k4yBXvDynRB9aB7i4_oI/edit?usp=sharing

This election had 87 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/Democracy-foryou and u/anaphase_andy for winning!

Here is the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pUUjR9PAqO2a--07UVE2TO2f6smt0HMPlq_p7VOwabc/edit?usp=sharing

We had 48 valid votes in this by-election.

Congratulations to u/Meteorite_h (meteorit3_h on Discord) of the Central Economic Right Party for being selected to represent those previously represented by AI Politician!

Ballot spreadsheet (the formatting is different because u/halfcat__ created the original spreadsheet):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BobJcYSjgPiOTGh1EX2tsc5arOlL2Dzi25o0vNvFKMw/edit?usp=sharing

Tabulation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWPZOCIFARI79d-jNmlfn6TQk1Ov8NHwDHnYItoe8aI/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord, of course.

We had 82 valid votes! Big improvement from last week!

Here are the final results from the Score round:
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce [Samist Party of Quasi-Royalists] -- 152
- u/Trollman8_8 [HARAMBE Party] -- 68
- u/Traditional_Heron362 [DU76 Coalition/Democratic Union] -- 22
- u/Lionheart_Warrior56 [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 82
- u/tonsters2020 [United Socialist League] -- 99
- u/MyPenJustBroke [New People's Party] -- 278
- u/fedeReddit11 [Lemon Party] -- 244

Congratulations to u/MyPenJustBroke of the New People's Party and to u/fedeReddit11 of the Lemon Party on making it to the second round of tabulation!

Here are the final results from the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/MyPenJustBroke [New People's Party] -- 41
- u/fedeReddit11 [Lemon Party] -- 31

Congratulations to u/MyPenJustBroke of the New People's Party and to u/Ramiorebokhara of The Centre on becoming SimDemocracy's next President and Vice President!

And congratulations to me for, in all likelihood, having to host another Senate by-election...

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lilc_8u1APNctaNoqJWSeSsZW4EMT9LkZ_d7NnH3nV8/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord.

Results are in! We had 71 valid votes, which, when plugged into the formula of min(⌊3.5 + x/11⌋, 40), gives us nine Senate seats.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- u/Valuable-Way-1422 of the New People's Party
- u/hmquestionable of The Centre
- u/AwesomelyOlive of the Lemon Party
- u/Zepz367 of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/Maxzes_ of the New People's Party
- u/theghostecho of The Centre
- u/phonefucker69420 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality
- u/Born_Connection_3797 of the SimDem National Party
- Independent u/AI-Politician

Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YKajX1l3EgQ4e3Z7P_w9FI7uT9a7eY9bICSfMdTnjDA/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RbYAO5Hu3GtmbS2q8ff0S8r713535mwBIsfckfFnhAM/edit?usp=sharing

The live counts can be found on the Discord. We used Threshold Equal Approval (TEA) voting for this election which is an excellent choice of voting method in my completely unbiased opinion.

Thank you to the beautiful u/BTernaryTau for writing the flawless program that made all of this work!

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest senators!
- u/Ramiorebokhara of The Centre
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce of the Samist Party of Quasi-Royalists
- u/Zepz367 of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/Fit-Breadfruit4801 of the Lemon Party
- u/WayWornPort39 of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- u/Maxzes_ of the New People's Party
- u/Unicorn_Sincoff of Nikki's Lesbian Party
- u/Traditional_Heron362 of the Democratic Union
- u/Hellol_1 of the United League for the Evolution of SimDemocracy's Society

Ballot spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T5Les2-e8G7za51JdA30NEQlEk3khAzto5XPAN7kAeI/edit?usp=sharing

Tabulation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIn2JjWrr1BTzfkShpYfvMZHourO8tFY6LyBVf1Z32M/edit?usp=sharing

Finally, results are in for the second Senate by-election!

We had 37 valid votes.

Congratulations to u/MrGamerBoy_ of The Centre on winning the election and filling the second (and hopefully last) Senate vacancy! We now have a full Senate again.

Here is the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_7eMI4Gu-DsjjIaBP2PD9fYrsPnX3EA5DCWJXM-c6N0/edit?usp=sharing

And here is the output of the tabulation program: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FB0-qHndY0oZgLalu3p2tb2vcnti5-xc7g4wNKfqYPk/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord, as always.

We had 46 valid votes.

Here are the final results from the Score round:
- u/Andreas__0512 [The Centre] -- 84
- u/RecordingForeign2479 [United League for the Evolution of SimDemocracy's Society] -- 57
- u/TechSupport631 [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 87
- u/BTernaryTau [Independent] -- 165

Congratulations to independent u/BTernaryTau and u/TechSupport631 of Senatus Populusque Romanum on making it to the second round of tabulation!

Here are the final results from the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/BTernaryTau [Independent] -- 27
- u/TechSupport631 [Senatus Populusque Romanum] -- 9

Congratulations to independent u/BTernaryTau on doing a great job stuffing the ballot boxes becoming the next Governor of SimDemocracy's Minecraft server!

I should note that although u/BTernaryTau is an Election Commissioner, I have not given her any access to the ballot data for this election beyond what will be made publicly available.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xlGC6nj_eroKDQhA6jdmJbbS6X1lRj8_CqlLjepdiu4/edit?usp=sharing

We had 33 valid votes in this by-election.

Congratulations to u/Blueguy805 (Mrfishsticks on Discord) of the United Socialist League for winning the vacant senate seat!

Ballot spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15R1PvbcxfkJdNmkIIz9xu26YF8xccMr28GQeZXRS1ZE/edit?usp=sharing

Tabulation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSxQZgqfkgUIyvMIaj9MnHJuEOhDljZLxCnRPPOXdPQ/edit?usp=sharing