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Liberio

19 June 2009, 13:54

As always, all deadlines are 23:59:59 EDT.

July 1 - Last day to file with the FEC to run for President
July 2 - Endorsement threads to be created; all Platforms for Presidential candidates due
July 3 - Pre-campaigning, Day 1; Final day for Presidential fundraisers
July 4-5 - BREAK
July 6 - Pre-campaigning, Day 2
July 7 - Pre-campaigning, Day 3
July 8 - Iowa Caucus
July 9 - New Hampshire Primary; First local fundraiser cutoff date
July 10 - South Carolina Primary - Last Opportunity for candidates to drop out and run for a Senate or Governor seat in 2012.
July 11-12 - SUPER TUESDAY
July 13 - Later Western Primaries (if necessary)
July 14 - Later Southern Primaries (if necessary)
July 15 - Later Northern Primaries (if necessary);
July 16 - BREAK DAY; Convention locations due; Final day for local fundraising
July 17 - Conventions, Day 1
July 18 - Conventions, Day 2
July 19 - Conventions, Day 3
July 20 - Presidential Platforms Due; Presidential candidates must decide whether or not to accept public financing; Final day for local candidates to file with FEC
July 21 - Presidential prepolls and local primary prepolls
July 22 - Presidential Day 1; Local primaries
July 23 - Presidential Day 2; Local primary results released
July 24 - Presidential Day 3; Local candidate platforms DUE
July 25 - BREAK; Local Election Prepolls and Presidential Quarterpolls issued
July 26 - Local Elections Day 1 / Presidential Day 4
July 27 - Local Elections Day 2 / Presidential Day 5
July 28 - BREAK - All elections Halfpolls issued
July 29 - Local Election Day 3 / Presidential Day 6
July 30 - FINAL ELECTION DAY FOR ALL RACES - DEADLINE FOR EVENTS WILL BE MIDNIGHT, Eastern time
July 31-August 2 - All results finalized; transition process begins; game returns to normal on August 3.

Liberio

09 July 2009, 15:32

A collection of miscellaneous announcements and updates that I've been meaning to publish for over a month now. Most of these came from PMs and other questions received during last election.

QUOTE

1) It is against the rules to fundraise and prepare for an election with one character while simultaneously playing another character. This includes Governors' House multis, non-legislative multis, and any other multis. If you wish to conduct fundraising, you must resign all other primary multis (Governors, Senators, House characters).

2) Incumbent matching funds match up to $3M of all funds raised by a politician since his most recent election or appointment to his current position, regardless of how many sessions this may take.

3) Failure to provide an updated budget during an election is grounds for disqualification. You must post an updated budget, or edit your original budget, by the deadline every day or you will be subject to a late penalty. Being late with a budget update by >24 hours is an automatic DQ. This works exactly like events - submit your budget at the same time as your events each day.

4) Lt. Gov campaigns do not require budgets or platforms. There are no CTs allowed in these races, and there is one marquee event.

5) PAC funds distributed after the FEC filing deadline MUST be posted in the thread in the Elections Central forum. Failure to do so may result in forfeiture of the funds.

6) Any funding returned to a PAC by a candidate is subject to all spending restrictions typically in place on the PAC.

7) Incumbency is 45 days before the end of the session.

8) Cities are a required part of the location for election events. Failure to include a city along with a state will result in a penalty on the affected events.

9) If a candidate for Governor does not post a platform or budget in time to avoid a default, that party's candidate for Lt. Governor has the option of "moving up" the ticket to run for the Governorship instead. In this situation, the Lt. Governor race is then a default. If the player who has moved up from the Lt. Governor race to the Governor race is involved in another race or holds another elected position, they must resign that position or race immediately in order to move up.

Note #3, as this is a major problem with most candidates. We will be enforcing these rules this session.

Hayes

10 July 2009, 18:39

As we kind of screwed over the GOP in running against Cav in the SWS Gov race this time by snatching away Lane, whoever files to run for Governor for the GOP in the SWS now will have until July 16 to post all six fundraisers, instead of the three that they would normally be limited to after the first cutoff. This does not effect the regular fundraising rules for any other candidate in any other race.

Thomas Lane

16 July 2009, 00:49

Just a note, for clarification and future reference, this rule, regarding headliner events includes fundraising events that are posted in the same thread. This means that even if you post two grassroots and one headliner in the same thread, the grassroots MUST COME FIRST or your headliner will not be graded but will count against your total fundraiser limit.

I will be grading Wyatt's Headliner here because of some confusion over the rule and failure to enforce in the past. There will be no further exceptions to this rule, so don't bother complaining.

Liberio

24 July 2009, 19:22

Updated local race schedule:

July 20 - Final day for local candidates to file with FEC
July 24 - Local primary prepolls
July 25 - Local primaries
July 26 - Local primary results released
July 27 - Local candidate platforms DUE
July 28 - BREAK; Local Election Prepolls
July 29 - Local Elections Day 1
July 30 - Local Elections Day 2
July 31 - BREAK - Halfpolls issued
Aug 1 - Local Election Day 3
Aug 2 - FINAL ELECTION DAY FOR LOCAL RACES - DEADLINE FOR EVENTS WILL BE MIDNIGHT, Eastern time
Aug 3 - Aug 5 - All results finalized; transition process begins; game returns to normal on August 5.

Liberio

25 July 2009, 04:30

Final election list:

SW Gov - Steven Andrews (R-CA) v. Haley Cavalier (D-CA) (I)
SW LtGov - Ghodsi Zandipour (R-CA) v. Amanda Renzetti (D-CA)
HRT Gov - Davis Jefferson (R-MO) (I) v. Edward Wyatt (D-TX)
HRT LtGov - Robert Morrison (R-TX) v. Mark Albers (D-TX)
GC LtGov - Richard Mabe (R-FL) v. Frank Garrison (D-FL)
NOR Gov - Brian Mally (R-MA) v. Madison Ballentine (D-CT)
APP LtGov - Karin Aoyama (R-KY) v. Scotty LaRue (D-VA)
MW LtGov - John Houston (R-IN) v. Alvin Exley (D-MN) (I)

AS-1 - Kitty Khula (R-NJ) v. Josiah Tonkins (D-NJ)
FB-1 - Peter Fossil (R-OK) (I) v. J.K. Edwards (D-MO)
CAS-1 - Curtis Davison (R-WA) v. Ian Joyce (D-WA) (I)
SB-1 - Morgan Randolph (R-AZ) v. Hunter Rose (D-CO) (I)
CA-1 - Quentin Hennessy (R-CA) v. B.J. Koo (D-CA)
CAS-2 - Diana Keys (R-WA) v. Karen Dayton Devereaux (D-WA) (I)
SEM-1 - Alex Sanchez (R-FL) (I) v. Stephen Frye (D-FL)
SV-1 - Dyson Blount (R-NC) (I) v. Elias Nassau (D-NC)
BG-1 - Marcus Hamilton (R-KY) v. Julian Williams (D-TN) (I)
WAB-1 - Joan Calhoon (R-IL) v. Lincoln Winters (D-IL) (I)

The following candidates win by default:
NE-1 - Jennifer Dixon (D-MA) (I)
MW Gov - Angelina Rockefeller (D-IL)
NOR LtGov - Russell DeWitt (D-MA)

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