As a citizen of this region, I hereby exercise my right to request further actions be taken in the matter of the last Local Council elections.

For the sake of context, and for possibly uninformed fellow citizens to be caught up regarding the issue being brought before this court, the full text related to the announcement of the current resolution regarding this incident is included:

Announcement posted on the regional Discord server, on the Announcements channel:

"Yesterday [Panda Minister] received a report that Techolandia had been sending telegrams to Auphelia voters over the last couple of rounds, in an attempt to change their votes. There is no problem with this tactic, however the Telegram contained quotes which were taken out of context and edited to misrepresent Auphelia's views - which may be defamation. TSP does not have any laws against defamation, either in the LC laws or in the forumside laws. However, defamation is against the NationStates rules.

This brings us onto TSP's Criminal Code:

-- Section 1.10 states "Conduct violations shall be defined as breaking in-game NationStates rules."
-- Section 2.2 states "Conduct violations are punishable by immediate ejection and banishment from the region, albeit punished parties may appeal this decision to the court. In most cases, nations that appeal the decision and apologize should expect to have their ban lifted."

While the forumside LC laws do not apply to LC elections, and the LC laws do not contain guidance for Election Commissioners, if a Conduct Violation was found to have occurred, [the Election Commissioner] would have re-run the last two rounds (which were affected by the aforementioned Conduct Violation).

Since Techolandia's Telegram had been reported to the NS moderators, [Panda Minister] was waiting upon their response to determine [their] next move. The response from the mods was as follows: "I'm seeing selective and possibly out of context quote content in the attached telegram, but the quotes haven't changed what Auphelia posted. Is it political and underhanded? Certainly. Does it break the Malicious Quote Editing rule? Not really."

Due to this ruling, the Telegram did not break any TSP laws. A discussion was had with the Cabinet, and after considering the actions, evidence, and our laws, [the Elections Commissioner] made the decision to allow this result to stand."

Holding the strong belief that the actions carried out by Techolandia not only are extremely repudiable from the standpoint of ethics, but might have also had an effect that cannot be measured and extracted from the votes cast, and can also be qualified as an attack on our democracy through the spread of misleading information; I feel the need to present a formal appellation before this government body, so that the facts pertaining this incident can be reassessed and, hopefully, a different, more consequential decision, can be made on it.

In case any further elaboration, opinion, or guidance is required from me regarding the contents of this open letter, I will be perfectly willing to provide them as long as they are within my reach.

With nothing else to add for the time being, I cordially end this letter, looking forward to a response from whom it may concern.