1701 Hurmu general elections/IRL

The membership of the Order of the Holy Lakes will elect the Senate of the Lakes in October, 2021. The new Senate will sit for another 6 IRL months (6 Norton months). Every real-life person with adult characters in the Order of the Holy Lakes will have as many votes as characters in the election.

New in this election is the possibility of binding referendums and a larger Senate. If one of your characters are elected to the Senate, I will invite you to the Senate discord channel where decisions are made.

Timeline

• 30 September 2021: Faction/Lists/Referendums to be set.
  • If you wish to have a list competing in the elections, the list should be registered by the end of the month. Registration occurs by editing the election article and adding the name of the faction (including creating a wiki article outlining a simple programme for the list). You do not need candidates on the list yet.
  • If you wish for a question to be posed to the membership of the Order of the Holy Lakes, you should DM Ric (on discord or hub.mn/forum) the question. Any question posed, unless too silly, will be asked to the membership in the referendum.
• 9 October 2021: Final day to add names to the lists. Failure to have names on the list will mean a failure for your list to compete in the election. If you, for example, have two names, but you win three seats in the Senate, you can only take up 2 seats, and the vacant seat will be redistributed to another faction.
• 11–18 October 2021: Ballots to be handed out to the real-life members of the Order who will
• 17–18 October 2021: The in-game election.
• 19 October 2021: Senate and Assembly results are announced (hopefully).
• 19–24 October 2021: Results can be challenged by appealing to the outgoing Senate (sitting until the end of the month).
• 1 November 2021: New Senate takes place.

Voting

More information on how to vote in the election and in any referendum questions will be given in time.

Apportionment

Eighteen seats are up for grabs. Lists will be apportioned seats by way of a simple formula: Q = 18v / T; in other words the number of seats available (18) multiplied by the number of votes (v) for the list, and then divided by the total number of the seats. From this equation, we will receive a quotient (Q). For example, if the quotient is 3.67, it means that the list will be guaranteed 3 seats. After all lists have been counted and given guaranteed seats this way, the number of guaranteed seats are added, and then subtracted from the whole number (18). The resulting difference is the number of seats left to be allocated. For example, say that there are 4 more seats to allocate, then the 4 lists with the highest decimals (when ordered) will be given an extra seat.

This apportionment system favours small parties. It is, for example, possible (but not guaranteed) to get representation in the Senate by as few votes as 10.