2017 Presidential Election Season 5

Mock Election Presidential Election, Season 5
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The fifth Presidential Election in MEC was held on August 11, 2017. Incumbent President and the first Democratic President to be elected in MEC, Ethan Kelly, won re-election to a third term in office against challenger Caleb Andrew of the Reform Party. This was the first Presidential election in which perennial candidate Adam Daniel did not run.
The election started out as what many predicted to be a Kelly landslide. He was unchallenged and on his way to an easily earned third term. However, that all changed when Caleb Andrew called for the end of the mod council. This prompted a battle where Kelly and the other MC members insisted there would in no way be an end to the Mod Council. 
Eventually the Reform Party was formed and Andrew became an instant candidate for President. He lead in many polls, and the Reform Party eventually gained enough support to have ballot access. 
When the mod council announced a new law where the only way to change the mod council was to get every member's support, the Reform Party was livid. This new law made the Reform Party more powerful as many more members flocked to the Party, including Duncan Daly, Adam Daniel, Jess Bullard, Payton Dunn, Former President Gabe Fly, and Drake Caprio.
The fighting and arguing became so cumbersome that Timothy Taft, the founder of MEC, left the community, who would later return.
In the end, Kelly had enough friends join to vote for him and he edged out Andrew in a close race. 
Shortly after Jon Gathers left the community as well, a new election simulator was created called Elections United, and inactivity was so high that everyone feared the death of Mock Election. Little did they know what was going to happen.
Category:Elections