Chief Registration Officer

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And what irregularities are suspected?

 

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At this point, the Committee doesn't "suspect" anything. Our task is, first and foremost, to find out if there were any irregularities; in light of the high number of invalid ballots, that should be standard procedure. Secondarily, our task is to investigate whether the number of invalid ballots was (partially or otherwise) due to the current voting procedures and, if so, to recommend changes aiming to minimize the risk of repetition.

Simon Signoret
Chair
Electoral Scrutiny Committee

 

[I Killed Kenny]

To the CRO, did the time of inactive of per. Glasser pass? can I NOW take the last position in the DA/CRP list for the NA?

 

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To the CRO, did the time of inactive of per. Glasser pass? can I NOW take the last position in the DA/CRP list for the NA?

Sir,

I refer you to the General Notice posted by the previous CRO on January 29.

Sincerely,
Nellie McClung
CRO Office

 

[I Killed Kenny]

As spokeman of the DA I update the DA/CRP list to the national assembly


Commander Stewart [phelbas]
Mr. von Streusser [von Streusser]
Mr. I Killed Kenny [I_Killed-Kenny]
Mr. Amric Al'Aeshir [Amric]

 

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As spokeman of the DA I update the DA/CRP list to the national assembly.

Mr. Speaker I allready done that, thank you

Sir,

as indicated by the CRO-office on previous occasions, the NA-list of an alliance can be updated only on the basis of independent confirmation from representatives of all parties involved.

Also, please be advised that the list, as submitted, would once again be exhausted after the current DA/CRP vacancy has been filled, due to the fact that the only candidate not currently an MNA is ranked last.

Yvette Montand
CRO

 

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Official results of Sixth Term mayoral elections
(direct elections only)​

Mayoral elections in the three major urban centres that elect their mayors by direct popular vote have now been concluded. The victorious candidates are as follows:

Buen Puerto

Felix Anzaldua [= Petrarca]
Independent
50.01% of valid votes

New Lancaster City

Wallace Gromit
New Lancaster City Alliance
57.42% of valid votes

Eutopia City

Charles-Louis Force-Majeur
Citizens for Eutopia City
42.11% of valid votes

Patrik Connel
Centrist Republican Party
39.87% of valid votes

Since no candidate reached an absolute majority, a run-off between Mssrs. Force-Majeur and Connel will be necessary.

- Yvette Montand, CRO

 

[Erc]

In order to reflect certain changes in party membership, et al., the CC would like to alter its NA list for this term as follows:

1) P.G. Talbott
2) Adam Julseau
3) Siegfried Robertsson
4) Antonio Mediverri
5) Johan Nolendorf
6) Capt. Martinez
7) Antoine de Raph
8) Lt. Belli
9) Capt. Allen
10) Alexander Larsen

 

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In order to reflect certain changes in party membership, et al., the CC would like to alter its NA list for this term as follows:

1) P.G. Talbott
2) Adam Julseau
3) Siegfried Robertsson
4) Antonio Mediverri
5) Johan Nolendorf
6) Capt. Martinez
7) Antoine de Raph
8) Lt. Belli
9) Capt. Allen
10) Alexander Larsen

Sir,

please note the following concerns with your proposed list:

(1) The CRO-office has not been able to verify that Mr. Mediverri is indeed a member of your party. He is not listed as such either at your party's HQ, or at the National Assembly. In fact, according to the citizen registry, he no longer appears to be a citizen. We can therefore not accept any list that includes Mr. Mediverri until we've been provided with proof positive that he has joined the CC, and that he is still a Eutopian citizen; please provide such proof at your earliest convenience.

(2) Messires de Raph, Allen and Larsen are not currently registered as citizens, and are therefore eligible neither for party membership nor for the National Assembly.

(3) As President, you are not eligible for an NA-seat. The CC is, of course, free to include your name on the list, but unless you step down from the Presidency, this will have no practical effect (since you will simply be crossed off the list) and may therefore be unnecessarily confusing to the public.

(4) Similarly, those candidates who are already MNAs will be crossed off the list for replacement purposes. This concerns positions 2, 3 and 5 on your list.

Sincerely,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

[Erc]

*A hastily and apparently-angrily scrawled note is sent to the offices of the CRO.*
For the CC: [MoNA list]

1) P.G. Talbott
2) Adam Julseau
3) Siegfried Robertsson
4) Johan Nolendorf
5) Capt. Martinez
6) Antoine de Raph
7) Lt. Belli

P.S. In case you bureaucrats want to put up further complaints, Antonio Mediverri, who has been omitted from the above list because of your nagging, joined the Conservative Coalition on February 11th. Appropriate records are attached (member list of the CC, plus selected minutes from the CC HQ [showing Mediverri's entrance to the party]). Thus, Mediverri's now-vacant spot in the NA is a CC spot. If you don't care a jot about this, I'm forwarding a copy to the Speaker's office [consider it forwarded].

--P.G.

 

[Josephus I]

Pers,

I wish the CRO immediately look into the discrepancy in the new seat allotment. According to my figures the ESRP loses a seat unfairly.


The new seat distribution is as follows:
ESRP 1
DA/CRP 3
CC 2
ENP 1
ETE 1

A look at the CRO election results shows an error on this seat distribution. with 18.9 per cent of the vote, the ESRP is entitled to 1.5 (or 2) seats. With 29.3 per cent of the vote the DA/CRP is entitled to 2.3 or (2 seats).

Please rectify this as soon as possible


Josephus Locke Sergei
Chair, ESRP

 

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*A hastily and apparently-angrily scrawled note is sent to the offices of the CRO.*
For the CC: [MoNA list]

1) P.G. Talbott
2) Adam Julseau
3) Siegfried Robertsson
4) Johan Nolendorf
5) Capt. Martinez
6) Antoine de Raph
7) Lt. Belli

P.S. In case you bureaucrats want to put up further complaints, Antonio Mediverri, who has been omitted from the above list because of your nagging, joined the Conservative Coalition on February 11th. Appropriate records are attached (member list of the CC, plus selected minutes from the CC HQ [showing Mediverri's entrance to the party]). Thus, Mediverri's now-vacant spot in the NA is a CC spot. If you don't care a jot about this, I'm forwarding a copy to the Speaker's office [consider it forwarded].

--P.G.

Mr. Talbott,

what we don't care a jot for is your tone. You seem to labour under the mistaken impression that somehow, the CRO office has committed a slight against you or your party. Frankly, unless you, for some obscure reason, expected us to bend proper procedure in your favour, we don't see how that is the case. The CRO office is in place to enforce electoral rules, and we enforce them for everybody, including yourself - like it or not.

You submitted a party list that contained a number of irregularities; instead of penalizing your party for trying to nominate non-citizens as candidates, we instead gave you an opportunity to amend your party list (and to verify the citizenship and party membership status of your candidates). Consider the generosity of "us bureaucrats" exhausted.

Now, to the issue at hand: since you have eliminated the irregularities referred to above, the CRO office will accept the amended list. Frankly, you could have saved all of us (including yourself) some aggravation by submitting a valid list the first time, instead of causing extra work for this office and then insulting us for doing said work.

Good day to you,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

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Please rectify this as soon as possible

Sir,

given the current constitutional confusion, it is not clear to us whether the CRO office has the authority to change the distribution of seats decided on by parliamentary agencies. However, we would strongly recommend that you launch an appeal at the High Court, and would be happy to support your case should you decide to do so.

As to your calculations, allow us to point out that they contain some errors. Given that two parties failed to take the 5% threshold, their votes are to be discounted for the distribution of Assembly seats.

Thus, the correct numbers, based on the elections results, are

ESRP: 1.6299
DA/CRP: 2.5183
ENP: 1.0371
CC: 2.0741
ETE: 0.7406

Seat distribution would be as follows:

ESRP: 2
DA/CRP: 2
ENP: 1
CC: 2
ETE: 1

Considering that the ETE has been dissolved since the elections, one could conceivably argue in the High Court that their votes need to be discounted as well, in which case the numbers would be adjusted as follows:

ESRP: 1.7962
DA/CRP: 2.7752
ENP: 1.1429
CC: 2.2857

This would result in the following seat distribution:

ESRP: 2
DA/CRP: 3
ENP: 1
CC: 2

Sincerely,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

[Josephus I]

Sir,

I've been told that the matter regarding seat distribution has been handed back to you...


"Dear Members of the National Assembly:

In response to the call from Per Josephus Locke to review the seat distribution ordered by this office, we would say that we did not, in fact, take into account that the DA/CRP ran on a joint ticket and that it is our opinion that the distribution proposed by Per Locke is correct.

However, the invocation of subaltern clause of 1865 and its enforcement are matters that are hardly routine for us and in order to prevent another mistake from being made, we would defer to the CRO in this matter.

If the CRO approves what appears to be the correct ruling we will grant members access as appropriate based on this distribution.

We apologize for any inconvenience or error.

Respectfully,

Robert Srools
National Assembly Office of the Parliamentarian & Bailiffs"


Josephus Locke Sergei

 

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Sir,

we don't mean to play "pass the buck," but it is not clear to us whether the agency delegating decision-making authority to us has that authority in the first place. We think it'd be preferable to let the High Court rule in this matter, in order to ensure the legality of the outcome.

Sincerely,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

[Amric]

To the CRO:

I must apologize for this, but the CRP/DA NA list has to be updated again. With Commander Stewart gone now<OOC: See OOC thread>, the new list is now;

Michael Von Streusser, CRP
Amric Al'Aeshir, DA
Alice Whitby, DA

Thank you, and again I apologize for the disarray that seems to be going on in my party.

Amric Al'Aeshir

 

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To the CRO:

I must apologize for this, but the CRP/DA NA list has to be updated again. With Commander Stewart gone now<OOC: See OOC thread>, the new list is now;

Michael Von Streusser, CRP
Amric Al'Aeshir, DA
Alice Whitby, DA

Thank you, and again I apologize for the disarray that seems to be going on in my party.

Amric Al'Aeshir

Sir,

as stated before, changes to alliance lists must be approved by the leaders or deputy leaders of all parties involved before they can be accepted.

Also, please note that our office has not been able to verify your status as leader or deputy leader of the DA.

Sincerely,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

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Dear Mr. Montand,

I write to you today to inquire upon several issues. First what procedure does this office use in determining who is rightfully a Leader or Deputy Leader of a party?

Second, and more importantly, I have been told I must ask you before assuming the open DA seat in the NA. According to the rules, as I read them, the seat goes to the first eligible person on the party list submitted for the election. As I was first on that list, and had not previously assumed my seat, am I correct that I may now take the seat?

Thank you for your time,
Dr. Jonathan Glasser

 

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Dear Mr. Montand,

I write to you today to inquire upon several issues. First what procedure does this office use in determining who is rightfully a Leader or Deputy Leader of a party?

Second, and more importantly, I have been told I must ask you before assuming the open DA seat in the NA. According to the rules, as I read them, the seat goes to the first eligible person on the party list submitted for the election. As I was first on that list, and had not previously assumed my seat, am I correct that I may now take the seat?

Thank you for your time,
Dr. Jonathan Glasser

Sir,

in answer to your questions:

(1) Up until now, this office has used the most recent available information to verify leadership status; however, we have recently implemented some changes to the process. [OOC: see first post in this thread]

(2) NA seats are allocated automatically after the election, so you did, in fact, assume your seat (which took you off the list); you were replaced as MNA later in the term.

(3) The DA/CRP Assembly list is currently exhausted (and has been for most of the term). The list needs to be jointly amended by the leaders/deputy leaders of both parties if the DA/CRP alliance wishes to fill any available vacancies.

Sincerely,
Yvette Montand
CRO

 

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So then based on this information this office still considers me the leader of the DA? That is I can clearly point to the documentation requested where as others, including the defacto current leader of the DA, cannot, as near as I can tell. If this is so I will go about making the correct person party leader, but first appointing myself to the NA.

My dearest apologies about the confusion over your gender. I hope you accept my sincerest regret.

-Dr. Jonathan Glasser