USAvote Guidelines

@USAvoteRP is responsible for all the Twitter RP elections. As of this moment, the following Public Offices are available to register a campaign for:

* Mayor of Los Santos
* Blaine County Supervisor
* Governor of San Andreas
* Governor of Liberty State
* United States Senate (Two Seats for San Andreas, Two seats for Liberty State)
* President of the United States of America

Additionally, this account holds mid-term approval polls in order to get accurate and non-inflated approval ratings of the current elected officials.

## **General Guidelines**

* **NO** alt accounts are permitted to follow. **ONE** vote per person.

* **NO** deceased characters. Your character must be considered alive to vote. Any registered characters who pass away will be removed.
* **NO** company or organization accounts are permitted to follow.
* You may only serve a maximum of **TWO** eight month terms if you are running for any public office. The US Senate and Liberty Governor are exempt to this rule and can serve unlimited terms.
* Note: Register with your party as well (if you belong to one) as USAvote is not responsible for hosting primaries.
	+ @Republicansgta
	+ @Democratsgta

## **Candidate Guidelines**

* There will be a **two month** long window for candidate registration. Registration will ***begin 5 months*** into the current term and ***end at the 7 month mark.*** Exact dates will be made available after mid-term approval polls.
	+ This is done to prevent people from registering and later becoming inactive.
	+ **NOTE:** You do not have to announce your campaign upon registering as a candidate. Registered candidates will not be made public until a few weeks prior to the election date.

## **Voter Guidelines**

* Voters can register to vote at any time **except** within the 2 weeks leading up to an election.
* Voters must have been somewhat active publicly during the current 8 month term. This is to ensure those who vote are at least semi-active within the community and not only making appearances on election day.
	+ **Definition of Somewhat Active:** Our definition of somewhat active is fairly loose but generally try to Tweet at least a couple times every couple months.. *However*, accounts will be evaluated on an individual basis as we know people have lives and can’t always be active.
		- If you know you’re going to be inactive for a while, shooting us a DM to inform us would be a great idea as we will make note of it.
* Inactive accounts will be removed from the voter’s list upon the closure of voter registration and around midterms.
	+ Only accounts that have not been active at all during the current term will be removed around midterms. Anyone who has been active is clear until the election voter list cleanup.
* Shared accounts will not be accepted until the situation of the account is evaluated and reviewed.

## **Account Administration Guidelines**

* This account is managed by 3 elected officials: an **RNC representative**, a **DNC representative**, and an Independent **Chief Electoral Officer.**
	+ There is no limit on the number of terms that an individual can hold one of the above positions. You may continue to run until you are impeached or choose not to.

* The **RNC** and **DNC** parties will both select a representative and a public vote will be held to approve or disapprove of the selected representatives.
	+ In the case of a disapproval, a new representative will be chosen.

* The **Chief Electoral Officer** is nominated by the RNC and DNC representatives and a public approval poll will then commence.
	+ In the case of a disapproval, a new individual will need to be nominated.
	+ The Chief Electoral Officer must be neutral with no party associations.
	+ The Chief Electoral Officer oversees both representatives and ensures the account stays neutral and legitimate.

* All basic management decisions must be agreed upon by the 3 admins.

* Elections for the 3 admin positions will be held after the inaugurations of the recently elected individuals.
	+ Both parties will either need to select a new representative or choose to keep the current representative. From there, a new Chief Electoral Officer will need to be nominated or the current one will need to be re-approved.
* These 3 individuals are the only individuals with access to the USAvote account. If one of the representatives is running for Public Office, the Chief Electoral Officer will be responsible for locking them out of the account on election day.

* This account and it’s admins will be overseen by a Committee Panel consisting of 6 people: ***two republicans***, ***two democrats***, and ***two independent/neutral individuals***. The current committee was officially approved in a public poll when this account was created.
	+ Panel members are permanent *unless* they are impeached or resign.
	+ In the case of a member's removal by whichever means, a new panel member will be nominated by the remaining panel members and the three account admins.
	+ All large scale account decisions will need to be approved by the committee. An example of a committee decision would be adding additional public offices for candidates to run for.
	+ The committee will also be responsible for overseeing the followers of the account and ensuring no alts are registered as voters. A spreadsheet has been created as a way for the committee and admins to to oversee and approve or reject accounts.
	+ Admins and alts of admins/panel members may not serve on the committee.
* An investigation can be brought upon any member of the account administration if 5 registered voters formally file a complaint with the committee.

* Anyone with complaints about the administration of the account, feel free to message USAvote to voice those complaints.
* Large scale decisions regarding the account will be made by the community in the form of public polls.
	+ Ex. the removal of a hosted election (ex. should USAvote continue to host B.C supervisor elections)

## **Account Administration Impeachment Process**

The process of impeaching a member of the administration or committee panel is divided into 4 phases:

1. A signed complaint on behalf of 3 committee voters or 1/4 of the registered voters will need to be submitted to the committee panel.
2. A hearing will then be held for whichever committee member or admin the issue concerns.
3. A vote will then be held to determine whether or not to impeach the person in question.
	* For the impeachment of a committee member, the other 5 committee members along with the 3 admins will hold a vote. For the impeachment to go through, 5 out of the 8 must vote yes.
	* For the impeachment of an admin, a public vote will be held on @USAvoteRP.
4. Upon the impeachment of the person of issue, a replacement will need to be nominated.
	* For the replacement of a committee member, the remaining committee members will nominate a replacement. A public approval poll will then follow.
	* For the replacement of an admin, specifically Chief Electoral Officer, the party representatives will need to nominate a replacement. For a party representative, the party will have to nominate a new rep.