2354 Presidental Election

## Beginning

The 2354 Presidental Elections started on the 9th of January, shortly after the new constitution which established the "President" role. Initially, 37 candidates expressed interest in running. This caused many to be concerned, so the Presidental Election Act was proposed by Tyco. The act would require somebody to have sent 10,000 messages in total and 500 messages in the past month on the Spookvooper Discord server. It would also require a candidate be in the server for a month. Lastly, it would require a candidate to have atleast 3 declared supporters.

By the 11th of January, the amount of candidates had risen to 43. A group of candidates, particularly Allegate, Jambon and Ethosein, created "The Collective Coalition", to rival the Presidental election of SpikeViper, seeing him as the biggest threat. The initial idea for the coalition was thought up by Caesar, and it was organized by Donia, who later started to become disillusioned with the idea. Many critics pointed out that there was no use having a coalition in a Ranked Choice Voting system, and it was toxic to make a coalition against a single person rather that an ideological coalition.

The PEA narrowly passed, mostly being voted no on by Senators who were running for president but did not meet the requirements. Ethosein felt that his contrubutions to the community were not being represented by the requirements set forth by the bill, since they did not include old server messages, of which he was one of the most active. With the passage of the PEA, all but 18 people were ruled ineligible by the activity requirements.

SBC and Puffin were among the first to officially suspend their campaigns, however both were ineligible to run in the first place. Puffin endorsed Ethosein, who himself was eligible.

That night, the first survey was created, the "Possibility Presidential Election Survey #1". The survey received 54 responses. In the first question, the frontrunners were 19 people saying they would support Tyco, 17 Hellodan, 16 Kobe, 15 Sh00b, 14 Allegate, 13 Ethosein, and 12 Jambon. In the second question, 7 people said they would support Hellodan, 6 Jambon, 4 Plexed, and 3 Allegate, Portal, and Kobe. The survey was used to verify that Kobe, Jambon, Hellodan, Tyco, and Plexed had enough supporters to run, however Plexed would still be unable to run due to not meeting other qualifiers. A large amount of voters came from the Discord of Plexed's company, Halex, however most of their votes were not counted due to them not being in Spookvooper. Of the 38 candidates, 2 were received 0 votes in the first question, and 12 received 0 votes in the second. Additionally, in the second question, only 9 candidates received more than 1 vote.

Shortly after the survey was released, it was verified that Portal had the necessary 3 supporters.

On the 13th of January, a small informal debate was held in the general voice chat, primarily between Portal, Tyco, and Hellodan, with Donia also making an appearance but having limited participation. Reception was mixed, but generally favored Dan's preformance. The results of a 2nd Survey were released later that night, showing Donia having won both categories by a large margin. In the question where people were free to choose however man candidates they would like, Donia received 22 votes, Tyco 20, Hellodan 19, and Allegate, Shoob, and Kobe 15. In the next question where people could only choose one candidate, Donia received 17 votes, Allegate and Hellodan 6, Tyco 5, Kobe 4, and Shoob 3. Many candidates were shocked by Donia's sudden jump, including Donia himself.

From the results of this survey, Allegate and Donia now qualified. Because of this, the total number of qualified candidates was brought up to 7. The candidates were Kobe, Jambon, Danny, Tyco, Portal, Donia, and Allegate.