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Imperial Election Results - 2008/06/02 00:54
Here are the results of the Imperial Election:
Imperial Monarch & Regent
Moss and Medryn: 18
Kord and Azrael: 11
Abstain: 1
Moss and Medryn will be the new Imperial Monarch and Regent.
Imperial Guildmaster of Reeves
Casca: 20
Abstain: 10
Casca will be the new Imperial Guildmaster of Reeves.
BOD Seat #3
Tatiana (T): 25
Abstain: 5
T will be assuming BOD seat #3.
BOD Seat #4
Rewth: 28
Abstain: 1
Write-In: 1
Rewth will be assuming BOD seat #4.
BOD Seat #5
Cullum: 30
Abstain: 0
Cullum will be remaining in BOD seat #5.
Votes were physically verified by our Esteemed Monarch Zumat in the NH today.
YAY!
For those who are math-impaired  , we had a total of 30 votes in this election- 3 more than the last Althing, and that is AWESOME. Thanks to everyone for participating and using your voices in this election process. I'd love to see this kind of voter turnout (and better) for every election.
IMPORTANT (Not-so-Yay)
At 12:08 last night, I received an e-mail that read a little something like this:
(Numbers replaced with Xs and names replaced with "that guy".)
"Here are the results Xvotes X this guy and this guy Xvotes this guy Xabstain Xvotes this guy Xabstain Xvotes X this guy Xabstain Xvotes this guy Xabstain"
The e-mail appears to have been sent via Verizon wireless (it was an @vtext.com addy) to my e-mail addy. There was no phone number or name that was even vaguely recognizable attached. I responded and have not yet received any reply. The e-mail address does not match any of the PM emails I have on record or have used to correspond with any of the PMs; it also appears that this is the first time I've ever received anything from that address.
Zumat and I reviewed this occurrence and agree that we cannot in good conscience accept these votes under these circumstances for the following reasons:
1. Voting closed at midnight, per the Corpora and announced due date/time. These "votes" were received at 12:08am, after voting was officially closed.
13.A.k.3. The Imperial Prime Minister must receive all proxy votes by midnight of the declared date of the end of the election for them to be considered valid.
The votes were automatically invalid because of the time they were received.
2. Even if we were inclined to overlook the 8 minutes lateness (which I frankly wouldn't be... three weeks is plenty of time to get your votes in), we couldn't accept these votes because we have no idea where they came from. No park was included, so we don't know where to start asking questions, and no sender's name was included.
3. Even if we wanted to overlook the lateness and that we didn't know where these were coming from, we can't verify if any of these votes were from voter eligible people because no voters' names were included.
I don't have any idea if this was an actual attempt to submit votes or someone who just thought it would be funny to watch my head explode, but either way this is a perfect example of what NOT to do to turn in votes. I really hope it was a lame-ass prank, because otherwise someone really should have some serious explaining to do to their park.
If anyone ever has any questions about how to submit votes or what the voter deadlines are, please feel free to contact me.
EDITED to correct my lame spelling.
EDITED to remove marker.
Post edited by: Talisin, at: 2008/06/16 21:25
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