DES Rules

## **OFFICIAL DES | DISCORD ELECTION SIMULATOR RULES**

**SECTION I - GENERAL RULES**

***A) THE BASICS***

**I)** No hateful speech or sexist, homophobic, or bigoted slurs, this will results in a warning and if the action is committed again, will results in a ban.

**II)** No pornography/NSFW of any type, whether it be images or links, you will be banned immediately upon posting. An extension of this rule is that of gore, of which will result in the same punishment as posting pornography, an instant ban.

**III)** No DM advertising of your groups to our members on a large scale. If it is reported you are advertising through DMs, you will receive a ban.

**IV)** No spamming of any type which includes repeating a word or sending a picture to a certain degree. You will receive two warnings and if you break this rule again, you will be banned.

**V)** Mass-pinging of any type, whether it pinging a whole role or everyone for a reason that has been deemed unnecessary will result in a warning. Two offenses of this will result in a ban.

**VI)** Being a general annoyance to people can also result in a warning/ban depending on the severity of your actions.

**VII)** In DES we have an alt policy that is firm and fair. We allow joke alts as long as they are not used for voting or for running for office. If a member is discovered having an alt vote or run for office, and in a government position, they will be warned and if another proven accusation arises, the member will be banned.

**VIII)** Targeted harassment against any member is within itself a bannable offense. If there is sufficient evidence to prove harassment against an individual, the culprit will be banned.

***B) CHATS AND CHANNELS***

**I)** DES offers players the ability to post things in the appropriate channels. Please respect these channels, such as campaigning and keep them exclusive to as it list, in this case would be for campaigning, not for arguments. Warnings and bans can be given out if these rules are constantly broken.

***C) PUNISHMENTS***

**I)** If you are banned or warned, you will be given it by one of our administrators. These can be overturned if deemed by the administrators and staff. If they are not appealed within 7 days, the ban will be permanent.

**SECTION II - TERM LENGTHS**

***A) PRESIDENTIAL TERM LENGTHS***

**I)** Presidential swearing-ins will occur the Friday following the date of the general election. The presidential term will last 8 weeks or 56 days from the swearing-in.

***B) SENATE TERM LENGTHS***

**I)** Senator's swearing-ins will occur the Monday following the date of the election they had won. The senatorial term will last 8 weeks or 56 days.

***C) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TERM LENGTHS***

**I)** Representative's swearing-ins will occur the Monday following the date of the election they had won. This term will last 4 weeks or 28 days.

***D) GOVERNOR TERM LENGTHS***

**I)** Governor's swearing-ins should occur between 3-5 days follow the election, abiding by the State Constitution. The term will last 8 weeks or 56 days.

**SECTION III - ELECTIONS/OTHER**

***A) REGISTRATION***

**I)** When first joining DES, you should check-out the DES registration form which will verify you to be in a government position, run for office, and register you to vote. If you would like any of the information you provided in the survey changed, DM an administrator.

***B) VOTING***

**I)** When you go to cast your ballot in DES, you are required to be registered through DES application and verified by the administration team. You only have one vote that you cannot change, so choose wisely who you vote for. If your registration does not match up, your ballot will be deleted, so make sure that your information is correct before casting your ballot.

**C) POLL CLOSINGS**

**I)** Polls should be open at about 6:30PM ET on a Friday. Polls will remain open until exactly 24 hours later, where they will close and no-longer be openable. Within the next day or two, staff will release official results with statistics and more. Intermediate results for House and Senate elections will be released two hours after polls open for news networks and regular people to know the results as they stand.

**D) POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES**

**I)** For you to create a PAC or Political Action Committee, you must be above level #10 in DES with the MEE6 bot. Once permitted to do so, you can create it and the administrator team will need the name of the person running it as the PAC owner must be public.

II) Keep post(s) from PACs in the #deleted-channel channel. This refers back to section I, part b,
segment I.