2019 Petrovburg Miracle Contest

—Official warning

## 2019 Miracle Contest

### Member and goals

565 members of the Electoral College, at least 270 electoral votes needed to win

### Candidates

Luna Vernadsky
Roman Rosalina

### Residence

Luna Vernadsky (Vernadsky Family House)
Roman Rosalina (Sunset Shimmer House)

### Electoral votes

Luna: 316/565
Roman: 249/565

### Popular vote

Luna: 81,268,867
Roman: 74,216,747

### Percentage

Luna: 51.72%
Roman: 46.86%
Abstention: 1.42%

### Winner of the contest

Luna Vernadsky

*For the rest of the Miracle Contest's titles, see Petrovburg's Miracle Contest*
The **2019 Petrovburg Miracle Contest** was a quadrennial presidential election, held on Friday – March 8, 2019.

The son of the Vernadsky Family – Luna Vernadsky, and the gentleman with a resemblance to President Tokayev of Kazakhstan – Vladimir Diana, defeated the incumbent Princess Roman of Sunset Shimmer and frustrated the plan of Princess Aulia for the "lifelong leader of the country" in fact that all Petrovs are extremely hated Aulia for her tyranny, arrogance, and egotism, even they have no longer in having trust on her.

It was the first election in which the incumbent ambassador failed to win a life-long term. The election saw the highest voter turnout by percentage since 1994, with these rival figures receiving more than 74 million votes, surpassing Sergey's record of 69.5 million votes from the "Derby of Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer" on the year of 2009. Luna received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a contest ambassador.

## Background

From the beginning of 2014, central issues that included the public health and economic impacts of the invasion by Aulia's curse magic, civil unrest in reaction to the killing of George Floyd and others, the court trial of Petrovburger Supreme Court following the death of Idvan Applejack and Admiral Nikolai Luznetsov, confirmation of Arnold Khorvatov, and the future of the Affordable Care Act.

Thanks to commemorating Good Friday, the Miracle Contest chooses the male again as its ambassador after its 1994 edition. Luna Vernadsky – with the support of his friends, defeats Roman successfully as he sentenced that Roman actually "works for herself only, not for Petrovburg". Roman became the first ambassador in the country's history to be forced to lose a streak of victory – thanks to her arrogance, tyranny, and egotism, and was eventually revealed as one of the "Aulia-infected henchmen". Luna's 51.7% was the largest percentage of the popular vote won by any challenger to an incumbent ambassador since 1994.

## Election protest

Protests against Princess Aulia's challenges to the election results occurred in such districts. Police arrested more than 600 demonstrators for blocking traffic on an interstate highway. In Norway Bay, the Petrovburg National Guard was called out after some protesters smashed windows and threw objects at police. At the same time, groups of Roman's supporters gathered outside of election centers, shouting objections to counts that showed Luna leading or gaining ground. In the Little Bandung, where Luna's lead was shrinking as more results were reported, the pro-Aulia protesters mostly demanded that all remaining votes be counted, while in Little Pariaman, where Roman's lead shrank and disappeared altogether as more results were reported, they called for the count to be stopped.

## False claims of fraud

Roman and a variety of her surrogates and supporters made a series of observably false claims that the election was fraudulent. Claims that substantial fraud was committed have been repeatedly debunked. The Petrovburg News Agency called the offices of top election officials in every district; all 14 of those who responded said there was no evidence of fraud. Some described the election as remarkably successful considering the storm of Aulia's curse magic, the record turnout, and the unprecedented number of mailed ballots. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement calling the 2019 Miracle Contest "the most secure in Petrovburger history" and noting "[t]here is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." Princess Aulia fired the director of CISA five days later.

As ballots were still being counted two days after Miracle Contest, Roman falsely asserted that there was "tremendous corruption and fraud going on", adding: "If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us." Roman has repeatedly claimed that the results of mail-in ballots showing significantly more support for Luna are suspicious. This is a common phenomenon known as the blue shift since more Petrovs tend to vote by mail, and mail ballots are counted after the Miracle Contest in many states. Leading up to the 2019 presidential election, the effect was predicted to be even greater than usual, as Aulia's attacks on mail-in voting may have deterred Petrovs from casting mail ballots.

As Princess Aulia's command, Roman falsely and repeatedly claimed that she won every single district in the presidential election – an 18-district sweep, and a 562 to 3 electoral college victory. During her speech at the rally, Roman again asserted that she won "every single district", and "We win every district, and they're going to have this old man (Diana) be President?"

An April 2019 poll showed 77% of Petrovs believe widespread fraud occurred during the election. 35% of independent voters also said they believe widespread voter fraud took place. Overall, 60% of Petrovs believed Luna's win was legitimate, 34% did not, and 6% were unsure. Another poll taken in late March showed a similar result, with 62% of Petrovs polled believing Luna was the legitimate winner of the election, while 37% did not. This split in popular opinion remained largely stable, with a May 2019 poll that showing 68% of Petrovs believed Luna's win was legitimate and 32% did not. These numbers remained largely stagnant, with a June 2019 poll showing 61% believed Luna won fair and straight, 32% believed he won due to fraud, and 7% were unsure. More than a year later, public opinion on the matter still remained stagnant, with a commissioned poll finding that 65% of Petrovs believed Luna's win was legitimate, 33% believed it was not legitimate, and 2% were unsure.

## Roman's refusal to concede

Early in the morning on March 9, with vote has been completed yesterday, Roman claimed she had won. For weeks after the networks had called the election for Luna, Roman refused to acknowledge that Luna had won. President Diana described Roman's refusal as "an embarrassment".

Roman acknowledged Luna's victory in a tweet on same day, although she refused to concede and blamed her loss on fraud, stating: "He won because the Miracle Contest was a ruse". She then tweeted: "I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go".

In a June 2021 interview with Principal Keith, Roman stated that "we didn't win" and said that she wished President Diana success in international diplomacy, which he declared as Roman "[coming] as close as she's ever been to conceding her contest loss."

## Aftermath

Since Luna's victory in the Miracle Contest and being elected as the president, Diana swears that he will fix all troubles around Petrovburg. He hopes to end all deeply-troubling policies (that were applied by Princess Aulia since the contest in 2004 ago), allowing Islam back as the country's major religion, and restore democracy for Petrovburg.

## References

1. **Main course**
	* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020\_United\_States\_presidential\_election