[Unity] The Procedures For July PotUS Primary
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by Talostastic
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Since my last posting, the Party Presidents of the Top 4 Parties have agreed to use the following system.
Federalist Party - Greene12
United States Worker Party - Othere
We The People - Hale26
American Military Party - Dr Luis Sentieiro Acting PP
(I'm told this is to be demonstrated by them posting a comment below the article.)
So, for your viewing pleasure, the Unity procedure that is in place for the CP Elections on July 5th.
1a. For the purposes of this vote "Party" means a Political Party unaffiliated with the PTO, and "Unity Commissioner" means a mutually agreeable representative chosen by consensus of the Party Presidents to conduct and administrate the Unity Primary.
1b. If, for any reason, unanimous consensus cannot be reached for a Unity Commissioner, up to 2 may be selected, so long as each have the vote of at least 40% representative support among Party Presidents.
1c. If there are 2 Unity Commissioners selected, they will work in tandem to tally the votes and verify the process.
2a. For the purposes of this vote the Party memberships as they stand at the close of eRep day 26th of the month will be used and saved (screenshotted/retrieved via Mike Ontry’s collection tool) to ensure those standing under Top 5 parties for Congress can participate in their own Party’s voting by returning to their Party prior to the collection.
2b. To account for Players who have moved to other parties for ATO Purposes, each Party President must submit a list of Players who are still Meta-Game members of their Party.
2c. In order for a Party Member to be deemed eligible to cast a vote in the Primary, they must be a member of the Party where they will participate in the Primary in by the time this information is collected by the Unity Commisioner(s)/Submitted by the Party Presidents.
3a. All Parties (non-PTO) provide a voting preference for their preferred non-PTO declared candidates from those who are in the Primary, marking their 1st and 2nd preferences.
3b. If 3 or more candidates in the Primary run and there is a tie between the Top 2, those who voted for Candidates 3 through X will be allowed to recast their votes for one of the Top 2.
3c. All Parties that wish to participate in subsequent Unity processes and have their voice heard in the Primaries must endorse the victor of the Unity Primary in-game when not prevented by mechanics, and in the meta if they missed the ingame deadline.
4a. All Parties will conduct their respective Primaries by their own internal system.
4b. All Parties must be able to submit a list of the members who have voted, but are not required to show how individual members voted.
4c. In the event that the total number of votes is greater than the number of players who have confirmed they voted, tallied votes will receive a penalty. Example; A 20 to 10 vote (30 ballots cast), but only 28 players on the Voting list, that party’s results will be penalized to 18-8.
5a. All votes are to be submitted to the Unity Commissioner(s) by 00:01 eRep Time on the 1st of the month with the result of the vote being declared on the 2nd by 12:00 eRep Time.
5b. How and when the Primaries are handled is entirely up to the Parties themselves, insofar as the votes are submitted to the Unity Commissioner before 00:01 eRep time on the 1st of the month.
5c. Failure to submit Party’s results in on time may result in being excluded from the current Unity Primary.
6a. At the end of the voting period, the total votes for each Candidate, from each Party are tallied and released by the Unity Commissioner before 12:00 eRep Time on the 2nd of the month.
6b. At this point, Party Presidents may request to review voting totals from other parties, and may raise a request for verification of any specific Party’s Unity primary results.
6c. Refusal to provide the votes total to be verified may exclude the Party’s results from the Unity primary.
6d. The verification process is simple. The Party will submit a list of eAmericans who participated in the current Unity Primary; accounts will be verified to affirm they exist, are within the Party, and are alive/not banned.
6e. All requests for vote verification must be submitted by Party Presidents by 23:59on the 2nd of the month; the Unity Commissioner then has until 18:00 on the 3rd of the month to complete all verification requests.
7. At the end of the verification process, the Candidate with the most votes in the Primary wins the Unity Primary election.
8a. This process becomes null and void when either of following two criteria are met:
8b. All Top 5 Parties are returned to “Friendly” hands.
8c. The PTO threat drops below a 20% CP Vote threshold and 9 Congress Seats.
9a. This agreement can be amended between the 6th and 26th of each month by unanimous consent of the non-PRO Participating Parties.
9b. The process of Unity can be reinstated by a unanimous consensus of the Top 5 Party Presidents should it become prudent.
9c. The process of Unity will be reinstated automatically if the opposite of both conditions described in sections 8b and 8c arise simultaneously as hostile threats by external, foreign political influences.
Talostastic
Vice Party President
We The People
- Winston Churchill
Since my last posting, the Party Presidents of the Top 4 Parties have agreed to use the following system.
Federalist Party - Greene12
United States Worker Party - Othere
We The People - Hale26
American Military Party - Dr Luis Sentieiro Acting PP
(I'm told this is to be demonstrated by them posting a comment below the article.)
So, for your viewing pleasure, the Unity procedure that is in place for the CP Elections on July 5th.
1a. For the purposes of this vote "Party" means a Political Party unaffiliated with the PTO, and "Unity Commissioner" means a mutually agreeable representative chosen by consensus of the Party Presidents to conduct and administrate the Unity Primary.
1b. If, for any reason, unanimous consensus cannot be reached for a Unity Commissioner, up to 2 may be selected, so long as each have the vote of at least 40% representative support among Party Presidents.
1c. If there are 2 Unity Commissioners selected, they will work in tandem to tally the votes and verify the process.
2a. For the purposes of this vote the Party memberships as they stand at the close of eRep day 26th of the month will be used and saved (screenshotted/retrieved via Mike Ontry’s collection tool) to ensure those standing under Top 5 parties for Congress can participate in their own Party’s voting by returning to their Party prior to the collection.
2b. To account for Players who have moved to other parties for ATO Purposes, each Party President must submit a list of Players who are still Meta-Game members of their Party.
2c. In order for a Party Member to be deemed eligible to cast a vote in the Primary, they must be a member of the Party where they will participate in the Primary in by the time this information is collected by the Unity Commisioner(s)/Submitted by the Party Presidents.
3a. All Parties (non-PTO) provide a voting preference for their preferred non-PTO declared candidates from those who are in the Primary, marking their 1st and 2nd preferences.
3b. If 3 or more candidates in the Primary run and there is a tie between the Top 2, those who voted for Candidates 3 through X will be allowed to recast their votes for one of the Top 2.
3c. All Parties that wish to participate in subsequent Unity processes and have their voice heard in the Primaries must endorse the victor of the Unity Primary in-game when not prevented by mechanics, and in the meta if they missed the ingame deadline.
4a. All Parties will conduct their respective Primaries by their own internal system.
4b. All Parties must be able to submit a list of the members who have voted, but are not required to show how individual members voted.
4c. In the event that the total number of votes is greater than the number of players who have confirmed they voted, tallied votes will receive a penalty. Example; A 20 to 10 vote (30 ballots cast), but only 28 players on the Voting list, that party’s results will be penalized to 18-8.
5a. All votes are to be submitted to the Unity Commissioner(s) by 00:01 eRep Time on the 1st of the month with the result of the vote being declared on the 2nd by 12:00 eRep Time.
5b. How and when the Primaries are handled is entirely up to the Parties themselves, insofar as the votes are submitted to the Unity Commissioner before 00:01 eRep time on the 1st of the month.
5c. Failure to submit Party’s results in on time may result in being excluded from the current Unity Primary.
6a. At the end of the voting period, the total votes for each Candidate, from each Party are tallied and released by the Unity Commissioner before 12:00 eRep Time on the 2nd of the month.
6b. At this point, Party Presidents may request to review voting totals from other parties, and may raise a request for verification of any specific Party’s Unity primary results.
6c. Refusal to provide the votes total to be verified may exclude the Party’s results from the Unity primary.
6d. The verification process is simple. The Party will submit a list of eAmericans who participated in the current Unity Primary; accounts will be verified to affirm they exist, are within the Party, and are alive/not banned.
6e. All requests for vote verification must be submitted by Party Presidents by 23:59on the 2nd of the month; the Unity Commissioner then has until 18:00 on the 3rd of the month to complete all verification requests.
7. At the end of the verification process, the Candidate with the most votes in the Primary wins the Unity Primary election.
8a. This process becomes null and void when either of following two criteria are met:
8b. All Top 5 Parties are returned to “Friendly” hands.
8c. The PTO threat drops below a 20% CP Vote threshold and 9 Congress Seats.
9a. This agreement can be amended between the 6th and 26th of each month by unanimous consent of the non-PRO Participating Parties.
9b. The process of Unity can be reinstated by a unanimous consensus of the Top 5 Party Presidents should it become prudent.
9c. The process of Unity will be reinstated automatically if the opposite of both conditions described in sections 8b and 8c arise simultaneously as hostile threats by external, foreign political influences.
Talostastic
Vice Party President
We The People
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Agreed to and signed,
~Hale26
WTP Party President.
-Othere
USWP Party President
Dr Luís Sentieiro.
AMP Acting PP
Greene12
Federalist PP
LET THE VOTE STACKING BEGIN
you people are dumb
Hurr durr my name is Fluffer and I only understand half of how this works, and not that having it open to the T6's makes it harder to multistack, not easier.
It's been explained before, but I'll explain it again.
In the last few Primaries, less than 10 "multi's" in 3 of the 4 parties could have swung the election. With more votes, it takes far more than 30 "multi's" to change the outcome.
However, enjoy the eUK.
I am, thanks.
Planting accounts in multiple parties is much harder than loading up in one.
But whatever, it's summer, populism time. The 12 year olds and the seasonal whiners will be gone by September and things will go back to normal, just like every year.
Popularism during the summer may subside by Labor Day; though hopefully you will continue to remain the same jaded traitor you've always been fluffy.
Always Glad to see your delicious butt-hurt tears whenever democracy surfaces; this Monty's rework of the Unity Process indeed made progress though to Wingfield's point more must be achieved during next Month's unity revision starting on 7/7.
Stay in the eUK Henry; Snowden would be more welcome to return than you by a huckleberry mile. It is no surprise your southern self decided to turn Benedict Arnold.
Pfeiffer, I know you're not really wrong here, but I want to know your opinion, what is the ideal here, and is it even attainable?
We both know that it's possible to make and plant as many undetectable accounts as one wants. It's only limited by the person's time, motivation, and access to appropriate proxies and scripts. If someone wants to manipulate an election that much, they will. That's a flaw in the game and the result of negligence on the part of eRep Labs.
Are you just arguing that this idea is stupid/wasted effort because it makes that type of manipulation easier? Is that it?
...and you are a FN douche bag traitor! Just like always you come in here and start calling citizens names, you're just mad that your bot farm is useless; maybe you can 'buy' American citizenship from your brother traitor RGR....
Drew Blood do t insult the Puppet Master please!
Rejected, completely, in the name of American democracy!
You reject the system that puts 100% of the power in the hands of the players, in the name of democracy?
Makes perfect sense.
on drafting:
I suspect paragraph 9c says exactly the opposite of what you intend.
On general approach: This places power in the hands of those voting in off game primaries. Historically that has been a small fraction of the total player population. Your reply to wingfield might, therefore, be better worded as "100% of the power in the hands of a small number of players, but more players than before". I think that makes his point, however. It is an interesting approach which certainly requires smaller parties to jump through some hoops.
Who has been appointed commissioner please.
9c is "Process", not "Unity". As in, automatic triggering means whatever the previous version of Unity was is immediately brought up for review and a vote to instate.
There is nothing in the Unity proposal preventing ingame voting on an article or via PM's, so long as it's a verifiable process, so yeah, it puts power into way more hands than just the minority who participate in the meta.
This month's UC's are Max (http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/2594) and Rainy Sunday (http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1528331)
section 9c automatically triggers reinstatement if :
All Top 5 Parties are returned to “Friendly” hands AND
The PTO threat drops below a 20% CP Vote threshold and 9 Congress Seats.
(that is probably the opposite of what you intend)
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voting by commenting an article or by PM certainly helps to verify who you voted for 🙂!
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You are to be commended for the effort expended toward a more open system: congrats. Remains to be seen if the results are beneficial. Personally I see little reason to employ such a process, but honest may can disagree civilly. Kind regards.
Holy crap. I dunno how everyone missed that one.
Talo, this is a good effort, and it's acceptable, but by no means preferable. For now, this is an improvement, and it's better than last month, but we still need to keep working toward a process that is inclusive of as many in-game voters as possible while still being secure in the idea that eUS leadership is decided by those whose primary loyalty is to the eUS.
I don't know what the ideal is in this situation. Ideally, we'd have full democracy as dictated by in-game mechanics and not have a PTO threat, or we'd just have enough active voters that we could have fair competitive and fun elections regardless of any possible outside influence, but hey, sometimes we can't have nice things, you know?
Either way, good work, but I hope you and everyone else will keep working toward that ideal. The in-game voters who are silent in the meta-game do deserve that much from us.
Oh god
8. Useless and pointless
People have always said "When does Unity end?"
Now, it's written down exactly how Unity will end. So no, not pointless or useless.
But that isn't when unity ends. Unity ends when all the top 4 agree, and that's how it should be. I bet if those criteria are met, 9 will always take over unless RGR actually gives up (no good forecast on that) or people don't realize him playing dead.
If the T4 decide to continue Unity after 8b or 8c come to pass, then they have violated the current version of Unity.
It is also highly unlikely that this would happen, since even the people who advocate using Unity now hate it.
Terrible system.
Hahaha, wow. I didn't think Unity could get any worse. But you guys managed to do it.
Bravo!
How exactly is this system worse than the previous one, where a minority of a minority of players decided who the next PotUS was?
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Rejected, completely, in the name of American democracy!
Reject democracy in the name of democracy.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is Strength.
Hail AFA! o7
Wana join our Propaganda Department? You have some great ideas bro!
xD
All votes are to be submitted to the Unity Commissioner(s) by 00:01 eRep Time on the 1st of the month with the result of the vote being declared on the 2nd by 12:00 eRep Time.
WHERE ARE THE RESULTS???????????????????????????????????????????????
Is it the 2nd of the month at 12:00 eRep time?
Valiant Thor why are you being so hard on you unity masters?
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Anyways,
We are starting a round table for Zeng999 cabinet and would like to have people from all the other parties, so if you had enough of this unity crap just pm me or Zeng.
Thanks.