A Key Event

#### The **2000 United States Presidential Election.**

The election of 2000 was the first ever election held on YAPmg and laid the groundworks for all events after it.

Held 20 days after the discord servers inception the election was between two primary candidates Myles S. Kinney for the Democrats and Greg F. Dover for the Republicans although many third parties and independents were involved, Most polling showed the election was a neck and neck battle with the leader constantly in fluctuation but ultimately Kinney was declared President by a margin of 7 points.

#### *Republican Nomination Process*

The Republican party nomination was never officially decided by primary but by scarce low turnout votes and negotiation - There wasnt much time to campaign or express ideals before the first unofficial vote was held so the vote was based entirely off personality and goodwill.

The vote was a landslide victory for the more Hardline-Conservative Frederick D.W. Stewart over his two opponents Frederick F. Bauer and Arjona Jones by 7-2-2, Frederick then became the presumptive Republican Nominee for most of the campaigning process of the General Election but after a series of scandals and meltdowns at both allies and enemys alike a large faction of the Republican party consisting of Alexander Hill, Boris B. Bohnson and Greg F. Dover demanded an official primary to unseat Stewart and this was granted by the Federal Election Comitee however no primary ever happened as Stewart was convinced to step down by Bohnson in exchange that his vice-president may remain as such however when Cash was asked to stay on as VP by Dover he refused and Edward Teck (A Democrat) was named VP in his replacement.

#### *Democratic Nomination Process*

The Democrat Nomination wasnt so erratic, Myles S. Kinney won a decisive victory over his 3 other candidates and went on to be endorsed by all of them, Although the primary he won wasnt official no other Democrat requested there to be one.

Kinney picked popular and Liberal independant Ender D. Pigg to be his running mate and was generally in the lead over Stewart and later Kinney for the beginning of the race.

#### *Campaign*

Myles and Dover were two special cases for their respective parties as they both prided themselves on being bi-partisan (Although critics argued they were just indecisive) however during the first debate it was revealed that Myles actually held views more to the right of Dover and Dover to the left of Myles which came as an embarrasment to both party establishments who rushed their candidates to assert their more party-line views, However the rest of the debate was a disaster for Myles who delivered an unfortunate gaffe about allying with nations surrounding China unless we anger it, Dover pounced on this and Myles crumbled under the pressure appearing overly agressive to both the moderate and Kinney and generally lost alot of his core supporters, The immediate poll held after the debate showed Kinney leading over Myles by 5 points a *-8# loss* for Myles. However late in the race with Kinney far ahead in the lead a series of endoresements from Alina F. Hintza and other prominent D-aligned third party members pushed Myles back into competitiveness.

### *Scandals*

#### *Debate Scandal*

It was a revealed a few hours after the first debate through an unaltered screenshot that Myles had actually bribed the debate moderator Liles "Jrod" for the debate questions and although Myles ended up squandering this opportunity when the public figured out they went into a craze and expressed their rage at Myles throughout every mean possible so much so that Myles ended up having to leave the post-debate show early and go to sleep with his reputation damaged severely and chances dropping like flies.

#### *Voter Fraud Scandal*

During a satiricle interview with PNN anchor Izington a day before the election, Boris Bohnson jokingly told him that the Republicans hated democracy and planned to institute a dictatorship as well as showing a faked article of the GOP higher-ups discussing how much voter-fraud bots they had and how they were going to steal the election, although most saw this as fake the Republican image was damaged among some voters and as the race was already tightening the Democrats ran with the story, after it was revealed it was in humour the Democrats issued no official apology and tiptoed around the issue in interviews.

### *Results*

As previously mentioned Myles won the election in a suprise upset with a commanding lead of 7% winning the states of the West and the North however in Congress the democrats didnt do as well as they only got one seat in the Senate compared to the Republican's three although their coalition ended up controlling exactly half of the senate while in the house they were tied with the Republicans for seats but 2 run-off elections ended up going both to the Dems and an Democrat Speaker ended up giving the Dems the house, The Gubernatorials on the other hand were a complete disaster for the Dems as three Republicans were elected and one Independant completely locking the Dems out of Local legislature.