Election Convention of 2/7

The Election Convention of 2/7 was a meeting held by the city council to decide on a set of rules on how elections should be held. In Coolsville's first election, flexibility was allowed because there were no rules at the time. The discussions began on 2/7, but did not end until 2/11.

## Rules

The following is the list of election rules. These rules are updated to fit new events, so the rules below are not necessarily the exact rules decided.

### General Rules

If a specific politician loses three elections in a row, they must exit Coolsville's political scene and can no longer run for mayor.

-A mayor can run for a total of 2 terms. They can get elected, then re-elected, or run for two non-consecutive terms

-Only one politician can represent their party in an election.

-A political party can have a maximum of 3 people.

-If a political party sits out 3 elections in a row while it is active, the party will become defunct and can no longer participate in an election.

-When a political party becomes defunct, the top politician can no longer run for mayor and the remaining politicians must join another party before the next election. If they don't, they can no longer run for mayor.

-Politicians that can no longer run cannot be in a political party.

-Politicians must be in a party in order to run.

-A politician can remain in a political party without running for mayor as long as they are not the top politician in their party.

-The top politician in a party must run in the upcoming election.

-No more than 4 parties may be active at a time

### Election Rules/Criteria

Up to three parties can participate in an election.

-Statement votes start off at 10, then is given 5 for every party participating. For example, in the 1/30 Election, 2 parties participated, so 20 points were distributed.

-Statement votes must be distributed by a non-partisan viewer.

-A total of 100 council members will vote based on issues that concern their voting groups.

-Voting group size is determined by their number of buildings, then adjusting the city council accordingly. No voting group can have less than 2 or more than 50 votes.

-Construction Zones do not count towards voting group size

### Voting Groups

Served Population (SP): Usually the largest voting group. Represents the population that is happy and satisfied.

-Dissatisfied Population (DP): Usually the smallest voting group. Represents the population that does not have their needs met or is unhappy.

-City Services (CSV): Represents city services such as the police department, fire department, waste management, health services, etc.

-Utility Workers (UW): Represents the producers of water and electricity in the city.

-Production Workers (PW): Represents the factories that produce materials as well as the commercial buildings.

-City Specializations (CSP): Represents city specializations such as parks, education, beaches, entertainment, etc.

## Amendments of Council Interim

- No politician can be forced to participate in an election that risks their ability to participate in politics

- If an election's city vote is split 50-50 between two candidates, the vote will automatically be set to 51-49 in favor of whoever has the most votes in the SP voting group

- If the final result of an election has a difference of 4 or less, the statement votes will be disregarded

- If the above rule does not change the difference of 4 or less, then the candidate who had more votes will be elected

## Aftermath

During the Election Convention of 2/7, one of the council members, Tobias Nelson, left the council and formed the Active City Party. A replacement council member was chosen shortly after.

After realizing that one of the rules would jeopardize the Growth Party's ability to participate in the next election, another council member, Erica Kartwright left the discussion and joined the Growth Party. A replacement council member was chosen shortly after.