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As most of us know, we were expecting changes to part of the political module very shortly... Well these updates have come in, and in this article, you can find out about them.

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The Changes
Starting on the 25th of September(this upcoming Congress vote), the citizens will now vote for a Party instead of an individual citizen.
- The party president will now see all possible candidates in one, single list for all the countries regions.
- The members of the party will candidate with the same rules as before the update.

The party president will choose the candidates on the 24th of each month like with this:
- Every party can propose a maximum number of candidates equal to the maximum number of seats available in Congress for that country.
- A national list will be set up(instead of a regional one) with all candidates in an order set by the party president.
- The people at the top of the list will get priority over the seats that the party wins. So the higher you are in the seats, the more chance of getting into Congress.
- If the party president does not decide the order by the 24th, the candidates will be on the list based on 'first come, first served'.
- The party president can not pick less candidates then the maximum number of seats in the country.

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An Example
- There are 10 seats available in a country.

- Party 1 chooses the following candidates: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G, 1H, 1I, 1J
- Party 2 chooses the following candidates: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H, 2I, 2J
- Party 3 chooses the following candidates: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E, 3F, 3G, 3H, 3I, 3J
- Party 4 chooses the following candidates: 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E, 4F, 4G, 4H, 4I, 4J
- Party 5 chooses the following candidates: 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E, 5F, 5G, 5H, 5I, 5J

- 100 Votes are cast.
- Party 1 gets 20 votes, which is 20%
- Party 2 gets 10 votes, which is 10%
- Party 3 gets 50 votes, which is 50%
- Party 4 gets 0 votes, which is 0%
- Party 5 gets 30 votes, which is 30%

- Party 1 gets 20% of seats, which is 2 seats. 1A and 1B are elected.
- Party 2 gets 10% of seats, which is 1 seat. 2A is elected.
- Party 3 gets 50% of seats, which is 5 seats. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 3E are elected.
- Party 4 gets 0% of seats, which is no seats.
- Party 5 gets 30% of seats, which is 3 seats. 5A, 5B and 5C are elected.

- 1A, 1B, 2A, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 3E, 5A, 5B and 5C are now Congressmen, and are the new members of Congress.

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This article was written by CheetahCurtis on the 19th of September 2012. Please subscribe for more great tips and info.