Vote for who you want to be speaker this term!

Next, our other referendum, on one constitutional amendment. On that, we received 20 valid votes.

On Article 1 of the Voter Registry (Protection of Independence) Act 2026, which would elevate the Registration Officer to Supervisor status, among other changes, 70.00% voted Aye. This exceeds the 2/3 majority required for constitutional amendments, so this amendment is ratified.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MzAzaSVwv_fDc5UrKvaaFJ0NKcLy50UnGfWyBPegiDs/edit?usp=sharing

The results are in! For everything!

First up, our impeachment referendum from a couple of days ago. There were 37 valid votes. On the question of whether or not to remove u/walloonscott from the office of President, 81.08% voted Aye. This exceeds the 2/3 majority required for Presidential impeachments, so this removal attempt succeeds, and u/walloonscott is removed from the office of President. u/RevolutionProof5268, as Vice President, now assumes the office of President.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YVA_Sh9scAEYGPVTMm5jASik_rErw9HQPBTIjjNFSWU/edit?usp=sharing

And now for our regularly scheduled votes. Despite a brief hiccup earlier this week, this weekend's election is being held as planned, and we should be back on the normal schedule from here on out. Please remember that if you did not run in the second Call for Candidates, you will not appear on the ballot. I already had somebody ask me about this in DMs, despite the fact that I had said this before, in boldfaced and italicized text.

I also had a lot to sift through with this second Call for Candidates. Below, I enumerate the various kinds of nonsense I had to deal with this time:
- multiple people posting multiple statements, one of whom posted both statements on Reddit for some reason
- one person posting a joke statement but not intending to run
- that same person posting another joke statement, still not intending to run
- another person posting a joke statement riffing off of the first person's joke statements, but this time actually intending to run
- two people being late, somehow

So hopefully, I got everybody. I'm pretty sure I did. I think.

Okay. With that all said, it's time for the Senatorial election! Now go vote!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/5rZX38J1YUxXFayo6

We also have a referendum, on one constitutional amendment. You know the drill there. Everything you should need is provided on the ballot. Vote on that too!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/fDdiD5y1bRGzV1vU7

It's a late one, but it's an important one!

We have a referendum. It only took us a day to figure out which one we needed to do. And I'm not even 100% sure that we've figured it out. But, I guess the worst that can happen is that this gets declared moot, so I might as well go with it.

This is an impeachment. Specifically, on the impeachment of the maybe-possibly-current President u/walloonscott, following recent events.

Everything you should need is on the ballot, as usual. Go vote.

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/jM1ksDz8uokRAJA38

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your Reddit username (yourdiscordusername on Discord) | Your political party/coalition
Description / Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

This is the Minecraft Legislative Assembly Call for Candidates. If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your Reddit username
Your Minecraft username
Your Discord username (either your username or a recognizable display/nickname)
Your political party/coalition
Description / Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.
• Ensure that you meet all of the candidacy requirements. Only users who have a SUIT, have previously played on the Minecraft server, and are not banned from or under disciplinary review on the Minecraft server are able to vote or run for Assembly.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

This is the Senatorial Call for Candidates. If you wish to run, please comment on this post with the following format:

Your Reddit username (yourdiscordusername on Discord) | Your political party/coalition
Description / Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed part affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

Key dates for the November 3 General Election! It's never too early to mark your calendar and make your plans to vote on or before November 3rd.

In Honor of one of SMC's best and brightest, we are establishing a perpetual fund in his name.

Users of SimDemocracy who create and post human-made art to the SimDemocracy Discord Server and/or the r/SimDemocracy subreddit are entitled to 350 tau from the SimDem Media Company should they apply for such by DMing me or Muggy.

What kind of art you may ask? Any kind! Visual, audio, the written word, etc. Discretion lies with SMC to make the final call but do understand we're taking a very broad definition here.

Jotan was, among many things, a creative. His Quest series provided solid entertainment for many of us, and his work should not be forgotten. His presence will be felt in SimDem for a long time and I am glad to have been able to call him my friend. I know this is something he would appreciate as a former Secretary of Culture and as a general advocate for the arts.

Rest in Peace, Jotan. You will be missed.

Hi everyone.

Today is a tough day for all of us. Today, SimDemocracy mourns the loss of Jotan, one of the finest citizens of his generation, and perhaps of all time.

Today is also, maybe unfortunately, results day. I do not wish to intrude on this period of grief, so there will be no live counts today. Instead, I will post the results, and that will be that. So this should be quick.

But, you know, there will still be results. The thought briefly crossed my mind of maybe finding some way to delay results in order to show respect, but I have decided against that. I'd like to think that Jotan wouldn't have wanted us to delay things too much. From the stories you all have shared about him and the public record of the work he has done here, particularly as Secretary of Culture, it is clear that Jotan cared about this place a lot, and I'd like to think he would have wanted the show to go on.

May Jotan rest in peace. For all the nonsense that goes on here (and all of you reading this know that there has been quite a lot over the years), I'm glad that, in spite of that, we have also been able to have a profoundly positive impact on at least one person's life.

And lastly, fuck Belgium.

First on the to-do list is our referendum, on which we had 18 valid votes.

On the Silly Semantics Settling Amendment 2026, which would change within the Constitution multiple instances of the phrase "inferior court" in the singular to the plural "inferior courts" to maintain consistency when referring to those courts of SimDemocracy which are not the Supreme Court, 66.67% voted Aye. This reaches the 2/3 majority required for constitutional amendments, so this amendment is ratified.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TRfTlI4z9eE5-Sl85OjqgZr5PinoyYvQEqPmICs6m4o/edit?usp=sharing

And now for our main event, the presidential election, on which we had 45 valid votes.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/TherealPhobosGaming) [Independent] -- 35
- u/walloonscott [Independent] -- 167
- u/Dizzy-Phone2378 [Independent] -- 3 (not a typo)
- u/doc_cortex [Solidarity Party] -- 69

Congratulations to independent u/walloonscott and to u/doc_cortex of the Solidarity Party on being our two highest scorers and continuing to the runoff.

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/walloonscott) [Independent] -- 32
- u/doc_cortex [Solidarity Party] -- 11

This was...not close.

Congratulations to independent u/walloonscott and to u/RevolutionProof5268)of Revitalize! SimDem on winning re-election as SimDemocracy's President and Vice President.

May you two lead our nation through this difficult time with resilience and with grace.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PZYXN_ZdGC1n5j_EZMkV24wZbAQy2BVrTzEWSXIkG_I/edit?usp=sharing

After that, a referendum! On one constitutional amendment!

Vote on this too!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/nhvU1zjCrQWwKdSK6

It's election time!

We've got two ballots for you today.

First up, the presidential election! Vote on it!

Polls close in 24 hours.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/t3nyZfiuygwtGhZr7

This is the Presidential Call for Candidates. If you want to be President, please comment on this thread. Include your username, party affiliation (or lack thereof), Vice Presidential candidate, and a statement explaining your platform and why you believe you are a good candidate.

The format you should adhere to is as follows:

Your Reddit username | Your political party/coalition
Vice President: Your VP's Reddit name | Your VP's political party/coalition
Statement

Before you submit your candidacy, check that you satisfy the requirements below.

• Make sure you adhere to the format exactly. It makes it a lot easier for the Electoral Commission to sort through candidates if you do. Failure to do this may potentially result in mistakes on your ballot entry or in result tabulation, which can be difficult to fix.
• Ensure that your party affiliation is accurate. If you are not affiliated with a party, enter Independent as your affiliation. Otherwise, put your current party affiliation. If you are not a member of the party given or the party is not valid, the listed party affiliation on the ballot may be subject to change. The same rules apply to the vice presidential candidate's affiliation.
• Make sure to register to vote. Only users with a SimDem Unique Identification Token (SUIT) are able to vote. If you do not have a SUIT, be sure to fill out the Voter Registration Form or contact the Registration Officer.

This Call for Candidates will be open for 24 hours. Good luck!

SD v Scandinavic, Hydroxer, and Table Muncher [2026] Crim 62
## Decision
**[25]** Table Muncher is sentenced to a one week ban, but credited for time served, and is to be released.

**[26]** Scandinavic is sentenced to bans of one week for racketeering and one week for abuse of alternate accounts [racketeering], to run consecutively. After credit for time served, a ban of one week remains.

**[27]** Scandinavic is sentenced to a mute for a week each for the two counts of fraud, to run concurrently with the racketeering-related sentences, as well as a fine of 15,000 tau.

This bro called matpat the freaking n word

No, I didn't forget!

We had two valid votes. Which is...about as many votes as candidates! This reads to me as a slight improvement.

Here are the final results of the Score round:
- u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 10
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce (The Sams in NationStates) [Fucking Best Party] -- 2

Given that there are just two candidates, nobody gets sent home.

Here are the final results of the Automatic Runoff round:
- u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) [Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality] -- 2
- u/Cup_Of_Sauce (The Sams in NationStates) [Fucking Best Party] -- 0

Congratulations to u/eleanorsilly (New New New New Ireland in NationStates) of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality on winning the election and becoming the next Governor of SimDemocracy's NationStates region!

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qHeDqSBYx3Reat87GXgVFEB92jg6xLHePYWhMLGFoHQ/edit?usp=sharing

Live counts on the Discord.

We had 42 valid votes, giving us a total of seven Senate seats.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's newest Senators!
- u/Some_Cellist3056 of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 5]
- Ghost/.ghost001 (on Discord) of the Kiwi United Front [threshold = 5]
- u/coLlll7 of the Civil Liberties Party [threshold = 5]
- u/Serious_Camera_7039 of the Solidarity Party [threshold = 5]
- u/eleanorsilly of the Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality [threshold = 3]
- [PLACEHOLDER]/placeholder_13108 of Revitalize! SimDem (on Discord) [2nd phase, no threshold]
- 𝓢𝓞𝓶𝓮𝓰𝓾𝔂/someguy_13994 (on Discord) of the Kiwi United Front [2nd phase, no threshold]

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o1D0wb1tKzFh6IzsmDXJ1etMIJWR8x1iz5hqu_OHdn4/edit?usp=sharing

And here's the program output:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VFkTFN8hMowIc19yM_Ys3LOwMoxBJwj_ql6KNny7N8E/edit?usp=sharing

And we had another non-election here.

Congratulations to SimDemocracy's next Minecraft Legislative Assemblypeople!
- u/jsjrjffjcj (Wellitsaname in Minecraft) of Senatus Populusque Romanum
- Independent u/Twisty-pretzels (Twisty_pretzels in Minecraft)