Attention everyone! It's time for the election poll for the City Guardian new term (July 2018-December 2018). Here are the rules for voting in the poll:

1. While the instructions here are OOC and the post is in the OOC comm, each vote should be considered a vote cast by your character, not you the player. City Guardian candidates are permitted to vote and may vote for themselves.
2. You cannot use any information that your character does not know in the game to influence the vote. The first day of voting, ICly, every character will receive a copy of a candidate profiles newsletter. Additionally, the debates were on as live television (not a network post) with open attendance if your character wanted to go in person. Characters can also use posts the characters made on the network and newspaper articles at any time to inform their decision.
3. Each character gets one vote for each city, not just the city they reside in.
4. Voting is via secret ballot ICly through a character's device. Characters will have submitted their vote via a notification that popped up on their devices that it was time to vote. Because the voting is done through the devices which check both DNA and memory sets to even work (read the FAQ if you don't know what this is about), no hacking.
5. Your character is not required to vote, but for the duration of the polling period they will have notifications basically 'harassing' them to vote every 5 minutes. It's far worse than a Windows update restart notification.
6. Any characters who have not shown activity during the election period beyond declaring that they are running or have dropped have been removed from the poll.


If you have any questions, reply to this post and a mod will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise, click on the cut to vote.

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Hello everyone,

As many of you may know, the time has come for the City Guardian Elections! These happen every 6 months and anyone can run, regardless of moral alignment. All you have to do is be the most popular in Genessia amongst player characters (as non-player characters are considered to vote in alignment with whatever the player characters vote from a hand-waved standpoint. They're not without say, they just have a tendency to follow the same pattern for simplicity's sake). Here's the schedule:

Guardian Election Declaration Period (Dec. 1-5th)
Guardian Election Debate (Dec. 10th)
Guardian Polling Period (Dec. 18th-24th)
Guardian Election Declarations (Dec. 25th)

*If you ever have an event, let a moderator know ASAP so that we can add it to the schedule and don't schedule another event during it. However, please be aware that election times are set.

So yes, the declaration period starts today and ends on the 5th! A post will go up momentarily for characters to ICly nominate themselves or others. Please be reminded that anyone who is nominated must accept the nomination in order to be considered officially running. All candidates are expected to participate in the debate. Though it is not mandatory, it is the primary way that characters can get their message out and interact with citizens to gain favor and votes.

Please keep in mind that when you vote it should be who you think your character would vote for, not who you think is the right choice. It will be done in a poll in the OOC comm and it is not a log, it is just basically the tallied votes. The debate is set early this month to give people plenty of time to answer and the new (or re-elected) Guardians will be put into office on January 1st.

Also please keep in mind that there are OOC rules about who is eligible to run for election as a City Guardian based on activity. City Guardians are expected to have a regular activity level as detailed in the FAQ and we will be PMing anyone who does not meet these qualifications but tries to run to discuss this. Though the rules/FAQ have always said that anyone who has not met these requirements may be booted from the office at any time, we have not always been strict about this. Given that we are going to try to get back to plot progress soon we will be enforcing this. If you have not been active enough to fit the qualifications in the FAQ, please do not nominate your character.

If you have any questions that are not answered in the FAQ, please reply to this post so that a mod may get back to you ASAP. If you have a question, do not reply to the Plurk for this post as that is a conversational area and moderators may not see your question among everyone's Plurk replies.