Elections for royalty. March 2011

System for the royal elections as of right now:

Candidates. They must be decided internally by the crew and announced in the thread in "Announcements" by the candidate personally, with a short introduction, before Friday 11th March noon game time.

- All the active crews with around 50+ members may have one or two as they choose (Tales from the Deep, The Imperial Guardsy, Revolution Rising?)
- The rest of crews of established+ fame may have one.
- Crews which are not very active right now, if interested, may present the candidacy to the royals for individual consideration.
- Sum of Parts may have no candidates.

Voting process. Each crew of established+ fame would have two votes "per se", automatically. They can be for the same candidate, or two different ones. Less active crews right now have one vote. Besides that, several individual members of the flag would have voting right too (all meant for actual non-dormant/retired members):

* Monarch & Royals - one vote each.
* Captains of each crew - one vote each. Could be delegated to First Mate, or not given if chosen to. Only for crews above Rumored fame.
* Sum of Parts and their members have no votes, since they are all alts belonging to some other crew in flag.

Clearly enough, if someone had two of these roles (eg Captain and Royal), they would not have two votes, but one.

Right now this would mean:

* Tales from the Deep: 2 + 3 (Ljamethyst, Phly, Sedna) =5 votes
* The Imperial Guardsy: 2+1 (Maerina) = 3
* Revolution Rising: 2 + 1 (Coike or first mate) = 3 votes
* The Celtic Spirit: 1 + 1 (Longjons or First Mate) = 2 votes
* Dangerous Obsession: 1+1 (Kazza or First Mate) = 2 votes
* Freshly Ironed Underwear: 1 + 1 (SOs agreement+ Cnoufesd) = 2 votes
* Rogues and Engineers: 1+1 (Lookatme+Wib) = 2 votes
* Make a Wish: 1+1 (Littleprince) = 2 votes
* Poseidon Federation: 1+1 = 2 votes
* Sea Bunnies: 1+1= 2 votes
* Calamitous Intent: 1 vote
* Legless Dogs: 1 vote
* Weeds: 1 vote
* Irresistible: 1 vote
* Wonderfull Pirates: 1 vote
* Poison Dagger: 1 vote
* Dark Sky: 1 vote
* Core Competents: 1 vote
* Dark Sky: 1 vote

All for now. TOTAL around 30 votes.

Comments

1. As the inherent concept of the words "democracy" and "elections" transfer, no one can be granted royals, but right to forward candidates and to vote, in some proportion to number of members and/or fame. The royals are voted and elected or not. Please do come to me with any concerns or issues you have about this. Thanks.

2. I suggest each crew manages internally their votes as they please. Either they make one group-agreed-on vote (or the crew trusts such a decision on the Captain's or someone else's), and the others are individually taken by the persons with individual right to vote; or they decide as a group on each one of all the votes corresponding to them.

3. It was self-obvious to me, but apparently not to other players. Probably because it was imbued into me from previous experience. A crew cannot vote for their own candidates. We will be voting with PMs this time. PM Sedna with the votes of your crew (for example, crew "Dummies" has right to 3 votes and votes for candidates "Zombie", "Skellie" and "Gorgonyx"). The candidates will be announced on Friday 11th shortly after noon game time.

4. A crew can choose to use their votes as they please, at least for this time. All for one sole candidate, or all for different ones (maybe fairer?). Votes will be given before Sunday 13th 3 pm game time. The new board of royals will be announced immediately after, with some partying to go with it! They will also be responsible for assessing on the re-election of the monarch or appointing a new one.

Love,

Sedna