46th Cosa corrected Election Vote Ballot.
Make sure your vote is received before the end of the election, at the end of December 31st 2013.
Part 1: Information Required to Vote
Make sure this section is present for email or mail votes
Your Name: [your name]
Your Citizen Number: [your number]
Your Province: [your province]
Your Security Code (PSC): [your PSC]
Part 2: How to Vote
There are 3 methods to vote (only the first used will be taken into account):
You can reply to this email, filling the various votes. Your vote will by default be secret
You can post your vote on Wittenberg in the "Official 46th Cosa Voting Thread", your vote will be public
You can print this ballot and mail it to:
Talossa Acting Chancery
[this is where the postal address is, I do not wish to publish it publicly]
If you mail your vote will by default be secret. Please take into account that postal mail to Canada might be slower for international Mail.
Part 3: Cosa Election
Enter the Initials of the party you want to vote for.
You can vote for a non-registered party, but unless that part later registers, you risk having your vote discarded.
Party Vote: (enter the party initials here): _________________________
If you do not wish to vote for a party, but do not wish either to lose your citizenship, indicate "PRESENT" for the Party Vote.
Registered Parties in alphabetical order of Initials:
Initials | Name | Leader(s) | Statement |
MRPT | Moderate Radical Party of Talossa | Glüc da Dhi & Lüc da Schir | The Moderate Radical Party of Talossa is the party that doesn’t want changes for the sake of change, but for the sake of its citizens when it is needed to lead to a better, happier tomorrow. We are united for a free, active, and diverse Talossa. Please vote MRPT today. |
RPT | Republican Party of Talossa | Mximo Carbonel | The Republican Party of Talossa, in Order to form a more perfect country, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , need in first place to establish the republic. |
RUMP | Rexhalistaes Unificheschti pr'iensa Monarc'hà Perpetul | Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselva | We of the Rexhalistaes Unificheschti pr'iensa Monarc'hà Perpetul (Royalists United for the Monarchy in Perpetuity, or the RUMP) pledge to protect the monarchy that has kept Talossa strong and to continue to seek pragmatic solutions for our real Talossan nation-state (though we're very tired now). Zooks zooks zooks banana./td] |
ZRT | Zefençadéirs del Repúblicanismeu Talossán | C. Carlus Xheraltescu | Talossa needs effective government more than ever. We will provide the active and stable leadership that our nation needs. We will institute the secret ballot for all, tear down the Semi-Permeable Wall, and promote our culture. The OrgLaw is a mess and needs reform. Vote ZRT for true republican change! |
Part 4: Confidentiality
Electoral votes can now be secret. By default, all votes received by the Chancery will be kept secret.
If you want your vote to be public, you can simply post your vote on Wittenberg, or you can type "I want my vote to be public" or "Yes" below:
Do you want your vote to be public? ______________________________
Part 5: Referendums
The following bills requiring a referendum were adopted by the Ziu during the last Cosâ.
Referendum number 1
45th Cosâ RZ20:
The Article IX Cleanup Amendment
WHEREAS the organic procedure for submitting bills to be clarked is not very clear, and
WHEREAS Article IX, Section 9 suggests that bills should be submitted to the SoS before the 21st day if the month, and
WHEREAS this is not the way we actually have done it in recent years, and
WHEREAS Article IX, Section 10 does not contain any information that isnt mentioned in other articles of the OrgLaw, and
WHEREAS the current Article IX, Section 6 suggests that proposals may not be submitted to the SoS before spending ten days in the hopper, even when they would have spend ten days in the hopper when the clark is published, and
WHEREAS Article IX, Section 3 states that bills need to be in the hopper ten days before publication in the clark, which seems to contradict section 6 as the publication date is not the date of submission, and
WHEREAS in previous years the chancery has accepted bills for publication when they hadnt spend ten days in the hopper yet, and
WHEREAS this means the chancery may have been acting inorganically in the past few years, and
WHEREAS this is not a very desirable situation, and
WHEREAS the law should reflect the actual procedures, now
THEREFORE Article IX, Section 6 of the Organic Law, which currently reads:
"After his legislative proposal has spent ten days in "The Hopper," the author may submit it.with or without modification or amendment.as a bill to the Secretary of State according to the procedures specified in Article IX: Secs. 8-12. The Secretary of State may, however, refuse to accept the bill if he finds that the bill is so substantially different from its original form as a legislative proposal that it constitutes a significantly different proposal. Upon such a finding, the bill is automatically returned to "The Hopper."
will be amended to read:
"Bills that will be eligible for publication when the next clark is published and have spent at least five days in the hopper may be submitted with or without modification or amendment as a bill to the Secretary of State by the author according to the procedures specified in this article. The Secretary of State may, however, refuse to accept the bill if he finds that the bill is so substantially different from its original form as a legislative proposal that it constitutes a significantly different proposal. Upon such a finding, the bill is automatically returned to "The Hopper." ";
FURTHERMORE Article IX, Section 9, which currently reads:
"Bills shall be submitted before the twenty-first day of the month, to the Secretary of State for consideration by the Ziu. Bills received after the twenty-first day of the month shall be published in the next Clark or postponed for one Clark, at the Secretary of State's discretion."
will be amended to read:
"Bills must be submitted to the Secretary of State more than 24 hours before the publication of the clark. Bills received less than 24 hours before publication of the clark shall be published in the next Clark or postponed for one Clark, at the Secretary of State's discretion.";
FURTHERMORE Article IX, Section 10, which currently reads:
"A bill may be proposed by submitting it to the Secretary of State. A bill thus submitted should be followed by the words "Uréu q'estadra så" (or "Proposed by") and the name of the author(s) and his/their party and home province. The Secretary of State may refuse to accept bills that are not clearly typed or word-processed."
will be repealed.
Uréu q'estadra så: Glüc da Dhi - (Senator-Cézembre)
Your vote: ______________ ( Select one of: Për, Contrâ, Abstain)
Referendum number 2
45th Cosâ RZ27:
The Share the Cosa Take Two Amendment
WHEREAS Article VIII Section 3 of the Organic Law reads, “Seats won by each party shall be divided by that party among its own members and supporters as it sees fit, with the proviso that each Member of the Cosâ may hold no more than thirty seats”, but
WHEREAS in today’s more populous Talossa, thirty seats is way too many for any one MC to hold, and
WHEREAS in tomorrow's even more populous Talossa, it would be cool (and cool is what we're all about) if the number of seats per MC would maybe drop proportionally, enabling more and more Talossan citizens to become involved in the national government, and
WHEREAS letting the Ziu decide and re-decide things that are worth changing with the times is better than setting them forever in stone in the Organic Law, and
WHEREAS we just spent a couple WHEREAS's showing that this seating thing is just such a "worth changing with the times" kind of thing, now
THEREFORE the Senäts and Cosa hereby approve the following Amendment to the Organic Law, and transmit it to the populace for ratification.
Article VIII Section 3 of the Organic Law is amended to read:
Each party shall assign its seats to such individuals as it sees fit, provided that each such individual is eligible to serve in the Cosa under this article and is assigned a whole number of seats. The Ziu may by law establish a maximum number of seats that any one Member of the Cosa may hold by law, but the minimum number of Members of the Cosa shall be no less than the number of Senators, and the same limit shall apply to all Members of the Cosa, and any changes to the limit shall take effect no earlier than the distribution of seats after the next General Election.
FURTHERMORE, the King, the Senäts, and the Cosa in this present Ziu assembled, hereby enact, effective for the distribution of seats after the ratification and proclamation of the above amendment, that:
No person shall hold more seats in the Cosa than ten times the total number of seats in the Cosa divided by the number of ballots cast for the Cosa in the most recent General Election, rounded up to the next integer.
Uréu q'estadra så:
Cresti Matáiwos Siervicül - (MC-RUMP)
Ma la Mha (Baron Tepistà) - (MC-RUMP)
Txec Róibeard Nordselva - (MC-RUMP)
Martì-Paír Furxhéir - (MC-RUMP)
Your vote: ______________ ( Select one of: Për, Contrâ, Abstain)
Part 6: Senatorial Election
For this General Election, the following Senators are up for election: Florencia, Maricopa, Fiôvâ and Benito.
If your province if up for election,
please enter the name of the person you want as Senator for [your province]: ______________________
Part 7: Provincial Election
Your province might be handling it's provincial election at this time. If so, you can enter your vote(s) below and it will be compiled by the Chancery
Provincial Vote: ____________________
Part 8: Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the election official?
The Secretary of State, Iustì Carlüs Canun has taken a leave of absense and left one of his deputies, Martì-Paír Furxhéir, as acting Secretary of State for the election.
Why isn't the ballot in PDF or WORD format?
The acting Secretary of State was nominated only 15 days before the election and opted to create an automated ballot system which, considering the available time, only left time for an HTML email ballot. You can easy select the contect of this email and paste it in Word or comptatible software.
My email software garbled this email, what do I do?
Email the acting Secretary of State by replying to this email and he will send you a PDF version of your Ballot within a few days.
How can I contact the Acting Secretary of State?
You can contact him by email at: talossachancery@gmail.com, on Wittenberg via a private message at:
talossa.proboards.com/conversation/new/465.
This ballot is illegal! or, This ballot contains an error and is void!!
This ballot was produced in good faith and impartiality. If there is an error, please contact the Chancery at once so we can correct the problem and possibly resend a corrected ballot.
The party I want to vote for is not in the list of registered parties, why?
Only the parties listed above registered in time for the production of the ballot. You can visit Wittenberg to see if additional parties registered since.
If I only vote for the party, what happens?
If you only vote in Part 3 of the Ballot, you will have deemed to have abstained on the other sections.
How will I know my vote was counted if it is secret?
Your vote will be confirmed by email if you email it or mail it. It will be possible for you (and only you and members of the Chancery or the Uppermost cort) to view your vote in the Talossa Database System. Follow Wittenberg for more information about that.
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