DECLARATIONS OF CANDIDACY NOVEMBER 2021 MINISTER OF CULTURE SPECIAL ELECTION Fellow South Pacificans, I have the duty to announce that it is once again time to elect the Minister of Defence. The Minister of Defence is the official in charge of providing civilian leadership to the South Pacific Special Forces and running the regional intelligence apparatus, should one be established. Elections for the Minister of Defence are administered by an Election Commissioner. The election process, as laid out in Articles 2 and 4 of the Elections Act, is as follows: Candidates must declare their candidacy and post a campaign and a conflict of interest disclosure in the public campaign area. A single round of voting will be held with all candidates and an option to Re-Open Nominations, where voters will be able to list candidates in descending order of preference. If no candidate has a majority of first-preference votes, then preferences will be redistributed in successive runoff rounds until a candidate has a majority of the vote. The remainder of this post will contain relevant information for candidates and voters alike, so that this election process may proceed as smoothly as possible. Good luck and thank you for participating in our democratic process! Yours faithfully, Kris Kringle Election Commissioner SCHEDULE The election shall proceed according to the following schedule. If any changes are made, they shall be reflected below. Declarations begin on November 25 at 12 AM (UTC) and end on December 01 at 12 AM (UTC) (countdown). Campaigning begins on November 28 at 12 AM (UTC) and ends on December 05 at 12 AM (UTC) (countdown). Voting begins on December 05 at 12 AM (UTC) and ends on December 08 at 12 AM (UTC) (countdown). Please consider time zone differences when reviewing the deadline for each stage in the election. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all legal requirements within the mandated time frames (time zone conversion). HOW TO RUN FOR OFFICE Candidates must comply with the following requirements within the declarations period (see schedule above) to be considered for election. Declare their candidacy or accept a nomination via a reply to this thread. Post a thread within the public campaign area containing a campaign and a conflict of interest disclosure. The disclosure must contain all potential conflicts of interest within the region and abroad. Submission of false or incomplete information in a conflict of interest disclosure may be grounds for disqualification. Once a candidate meets all the above requirements they will be considered for the ballot and may campaign as they see fit, subject to all applicable laws and standards of conduct. VOTE The election consists of a single round of voting held via Instant Runoff Vote (IRV) and open to all legislators who gained their status prior to the start of the election. There are two ways of casting a vote: Legislators may cast a public vote via a voting thread that will be made available within the public campaign area by listing some or all of the candidates in descending order of preference. Legislators may cast a private vote via a message to the Vote Collector account by listing some or all of the candidates in descending order of preference. Votes cast in private will be released with an anonymous code attached to each, so that only the caster will know which vote corresponds to them. Please consider time zone differences when reviewing the deadline for each stage in the election. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all legal requirements within the mandated time frames (time zone conversion). BALLOT Domais Moon

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Nominate Moon

Minister of Foreign Affairs
General of the South Pacific Special Forces
Ambassador to Balder
Former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense

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I nominate Meaningful Cough.

Former Delegate of the South Pacific
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Nominate Moon

I accept my nomination.

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I nominate Qvait, Nakarisaune, Belschaft and United States of Vietnam.

Local Councilroar.

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I nominate Qvait, Nakarisaune, Belschaft and United States of Vietnam.

I respectfully decline until such time that I have more experience and availability during update.

4× Cabinet minister /// 1× OWL director /// CRS member /// SPSF

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I will run.

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