February 2021 election

The Brazilian's Mapping Chat February 2021 election was the 21st monthly election of the server, held on February 2nd, 2021. It was set to elect the Rotative Moderator as well as all nine members of the House of Commons; however, it was cancelled due to problems with the voting system.
Since the December 2020 election, BMC had definitively dropped Google Forms as a voting system in favor of mere Discord reactions. Both the December and January elections had no issues; however, due to Antares' ironic application, mass voting ensued. Additionally, this exposed the main fault of the reaction system: the publicity of the votes enabled potential rigging via mass coordination from voters. Due to this, Brazilian attempted to take measures to change the system mid-election, but further problems related to Staff interference by Rayan and Danieer made the election's progression impossible, and it was cancelled.
== February 2021 reforms ==
Due to the election's failure, Brazilian and Staff made a number of reforms to address its issues:
* The reactions system was dropped in favor of a system in which voters would DM up to three votes to an account operated by Brazilian, who would register them.
* Public elections for the Rotative Moderator were abolished, and were kept only for the House of Commons. In the new system, Staff would internally elect one of the new House members as Rotative.
* Due to disobedience during the election, Danieer was demoted and replaced by the incumbent Rotative Moderator, Arth.
* The Rotative Moderator for February was directly appointed by the Council: due to brackets declining, Russian was chosen.
* The number of members of the House of Commons was decreased from 9 to 7 by abolishing Arth's and Saxony's seats. Russian took over Para's seat.
The March 2021 election was held normally and with no issues under the new system, electing brackets as Rotative.
Category:Elections