1665 ELECTION YEAR

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NMHE down

IDP up in Brookshire, Shirekeep, Amokolia

N&H down in Amokolia/Mishalan (why do you make these confusing statements... voters don't know if you're standing or not, so you're starting to get rid of your Amokolian support that you've nicely built up)

Alalehzamin: N&H doesn't even stand in Alalehzamin (of the Elwynnese constituencies, only in Utasia), effect is that voters are confused, support for Behsaz goes down in Alalehzamin.

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Ecohumanist propaganda:

Up everywhere – the N&H has spread the word about the ecohumanists, and so now pretty much everyone in Brookshire, Goldshire, Alalehzamin, Shirekeep, Amokolia know about them. The new propaganda by NMHE resonates there. Up.

[Verion]

Verionist Union, Press Conference, one day before the elections:

Stephen Lewis, National Chairman: Thank you everyone for coming to this press conference. It is almost time to head to the voting booth, and it is time for the Shirithian people to make a decision on our future. This campaign has lasted too long, it has been dirty and mean at times. Today, I want to make a final appeal to you, the people of Shireroth. It is of crucial importance that this election goes the right way. The last weeks, the Imperial Democrats and the National Humanists have attacked the Verionist Union vigourously. There are two sides in this election, that is something that has become clear. We have reason to believe that the Modanese dictator and the Steward have made a secret agreement on forming a government. That would be disastrous for our country.

It is not only a matter of policy differences. It is not even only a matter of liberty against autocracy. It is more, it is a matter of character, judgement and eventually the safety of our nation. The Prince of Modan is a follower of the Khanist philosophy. Originating in Babkha, this ideology explicitly states that the people are inferior to the leadership. It is a system of slavery, of the rule of brute force and barbarity. In Modan we see where this leads, Verionists have been banned from running in the elections. The people of Modan suffer under the yoke of an all-seeing government, with godlike aspirations, who treat their subjects as their personal toys. Those people can simply not be in power.

And whereas the N&H are blatantly clear about their despotic, villaneaous programme, the Imperial Democrats campaign on empty rhetoric "A greater Shireroth" "a better future", we have heard it all. They also try to steal the ancient Verionist principles of free trade and national security. In one of their more ridiulous posters, they put the election reform, which was brought forward by Titus Morvayne, a proud Verionist, as their own accomplishment. It is an absurd party, with absurd people. But they won't be believed by the sharp Shirithian observer.

What's even more troubling about the Steward and his parliamentary vessel, is his lack of judgement. When Titus Morvayne just entered the prefecture of Shirekeep, he realised what the IDP really stands for: appeasement to the Vanic insurgents. Considering the Steward's background, this is not surprising. Toleration of the most vile elements in our nation was his motto. The Steward and the Imperial Democrats (nor any other party, for that matter) have ever mentioned the Vanic Web, an extensive stay-behind network of the Froyalanish fury. When Titus Morvayne, and other strong patriotic Verionists declared war on the Vanics, the IDP and N&H politicians cowered out of their comfortable homes, payed with the blood of our fellow countrymen. How many murders, committed by the Vanic Web, could have been avoided if the IDP had done its job? Countless!

My friends, the distinction is clear. We have two sides, with very different records. A record of enslavement, appeasement, terror, weak government and bad judgement on the one side, and a record of strong leadership, fighting Vanic insurgency, establishing agencies to deal with existential threats to our nation, working for the Shirerithian economy and standing up for individual liberty from the other side.

The Verionist Union is the right choice for Shireroth, we have delivered, and we will fight the good fight, and overcome the evils that threaten us. Do lend us your support in the upcoming elections, and we will not betray you.

Thank you, may the Gods bless you, and good night!

This speech has been broadcast through the entire nation, on various media platforms.

[Verion]

[Kaiser Ayreon IV]

Very nice!

IDP and N&H down, especially in Shirekeep. VU up, especially in Shirekeep.

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[Kaiser Ayreon IV]

VU/SPAM down.

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[Kaiser Ayreon IV]

HAHA, effective. VU/SPAM down more.

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[Kaiser Ayreon IV]

HPDI, VU, SPAM moderately down.

[Hartmut Aldric]

IDP Narrows Electoral Focus On Final Stages of Campaign

ALEXANDRETTA, BROOKSHIRE -- The Imperial Democratic Party has announced that in the final weeks of the campaign, they will narrow their focus on the states of Goldshire, Brookshire, Shirekeep, and Kezan. The IDP has also identified the Northern Realm as well as part of its final focus, along with the territories of Mishalan and Zy-Rodun.

In the areas of Alalehzamin, Araxion, Eliria, and Utasia, the Imperial Democratic Party will suspend its campaign and instead endorse the Southern League and its political affiliates, encouraging voters in those places to cast their votes for them there. While the IDP made inroads in those areas, they are instead directing the resources to reach as many Shirerithians in the most far-flung places of the Empire, in a genuine effort to build a broader and more diverse coalition ahead of the election.

The IDP's fundraising machine is reaping larger fundraising from the Steward's press conference performance, as the true extent of the Verionist Web in Shireroth was outed.

[Hartmut Aldric]

And whereas the N&H are blatantly clear about their despotic, villaneaous programme, the Imperial Democrats campaign on empty rhetoric "A greater Shireroth" "a better future", we have heard it all. They also try to steal the ancient Verionist principles of free trade and national security. In one of their more ridiulous posters, they put the election reform, which was brought forward by Titus Morvayne, a proud Verionist, as their own accomplishment. It is an absurd party, with absurd people. But they won't be believed by the sharp Shirithian observer.

What's even more troubling about the Steward and his parliamentary vessel, is his lack of judgement. When Titus Morvayne just entered the prefecture of Shirekeep, he realised what the IDP really stands for: appeasement to the Vanic insurgents. Considering the Steward's background, this is not surprising. Toleration of the most vile elements in our nation was his motto. The Steward and the Imperial Democrats (nor any other party, for that matter) have ever mentioned the Vanic Web, an extensive stay-behind network of the Froyalanish fury. When Titus Morvayne, and other strong patriotic Verionists declared war on the Vanics, the IDP and N&H politicians cowered out of their comfortable homes, payed with the blood of our fellow countrymen. How many murders, committed by the Vanic Web, could have been avoided if the IDP had done its job? Countless!

IDP Press Spokesperson: Thank you all for being here - I do think we need to respond to the unhinged and flat-out lies that the Verionist Union is putting out against the Steward and the IDP.

First off - it has been universally recognized that the campaign the IDP has been running has focused on very straightforward points. Investments in infrastructure. Improving our democracy through a comprehensive Election Law that includes a Code of Conduct for parties and candidates. Opening up the markets so all people can start a business if they want to and grow our economy. Improve health care access for citizens. It's in all of our literature - but the Verionist Union is a victim of their own ignorance. It looks they only read the campaign slogans.

Can you name a single policy that is wholly original to them that has been pushed by them? I can. Stealing from the national coffers. Selling Blackstone to Jingdao. Instituting some of this nation's first restrictive rules on democratic participation in the Northern Realm.

They claim that we are stealing policies from them - tell me who proposed a toothless resolution in the Landsraad in a vain and pathetic attempt to steal the issue from the Imperial Democratic Party? It was the Verionists. That's how they do - cheap tricks, lies, and deception.

The people of Shireroth know better. I know better. You know better. The Verionist Union is serving the people of Shireroth lies and it's high time that we shove it back to them. We cannot allow this country to be sold piecemeal to Jingdao like they have. We cannot allow them to govern when they steal and cheat and lie. This is a historic election and we simply can't afford to throw our country to a ravenous pack of wolves.

Also - very unhinged, it looks like the Verionist Union is also unware of history and basic timelines - the Steward supports the continued efforts to remove the daemonic posession that our country suffered under Vanic rule. We have never, ever wavered in supporting this, and now they're so desperate that they're blaming the IDP for it. The IDP wasn't even in existance during the Auspicious Occasion, and at that time, the Steward was in Goldshire, employed by the King of Goldshire to administer Elsyran and then later Suthergold. The Auspicious Occasion only happened because the late Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill appointed Kaiser Dominus to the Throne and he continued what the Hjalmar Redquill started. The Verionists did nothing and now claim credit.

It's preposterous, it's deceiving, and it's wrong. This election the choices are clear:

Do you vote for the desperate liars and the lies they peddle? Or do you vote for a party that has described in short points what they wish to do - so there's no misinterpretation and no confusion?

Do you vote for the party that sold Blackstone to Jingdao and directly put into peril our national security by giving Jingdao a base just a few miles away from our own shores? Or do you vote for the party that will always oppose Jing dominance and support our troops and our military?

Do you vote for the party that first implement real and tangible limits on the democratic choices of the people of the Northern Realm? Or do you vote for the party that wants a comprehensive Electoral Law that includes rules to require parties to post a clear platform and a list of leaders to better inform voters?

The Verionist Union is desperate my friends - it's time to toss them to the dust bin of history and move forward, confident, positive, and strong to a real future. For a greater Shireroth, the choice is clear: vote IDP. Thank you.

[Hartmut Aldric]

Targets of Ads: Northern Realm, Goldshire, Brookshire, Shirekeep, Kezan, Mishalan, Batavia, Amokolia, Zy-Rodun

[Hartmut Aldric]

Reference

Target of Ad: Northern Realm, Goldshire, Brookshire, Shirekeep, Kezan, Mishalan, Batavia, Amokolia, Zy-Rodun

[Verion]

Stephen Lewis issued a short reaction to the latest IDP/N&H campaign against the Verionist Union:

"Thanks to the IDP and N&H for showing clearly that they have formed a secret election pact against the citizens of Shireroth. They have coordinated their campaign and try to silence us. The VU emerges as the only true opposition to Vanic-appeasing dictatorship."

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Joint Press Statement of the Southern League (N&H, Behsaz-Eluin, ERO). Given at Eliria Castle, 24.X.1665 (20.56):

The Southern League remains united and committed to the terms of the Islus agreement. The apportionment of Elwynn to electoral agents of the Nationalist & Humanist Party in Utasia, Behsaz-Elluin in Alalehzamin, and the Elwynnese Resistance Organisation for Araxion, Eliria and the occupied counties of the north, remains unaltered. Our joint-communications team has been reorganised so as to better clarify this.

Our important work continues, and shall continue not only for this election but for as long as it shall take to restore our sacred motherland. Our grievances against the House of Verion, the Church of the Icebear, and the Cimmerian nation, remain unaddressed whilst the Northern Realm remains extant. Nor will the shameful betrayal of our nation by the Ayreonist Independence Party be forgotten or forgiven.

The Southern League has agreed that a single list and consistent messaging will be employed for the Adlesraad campaign in Free Elwynn. We trust to the resolution of the Landsraad and to the soon to be established Electoral Commission to safeguard the rights of our candidates in Free Elwynn, and to protect those whom the Elwynnese Resistance Organisation will put forward in the Occupied North.

Elwynn, betrayed and sundered, yearns for reunification, and for the restoration of its national and cultural life and liberty. Our economy has been devastated by the appropriations carried out by the regime of Princess Eki, whose tenure in Eliria, in hindsight, may be considered nothing short of a Cimmerian Razzia conducted against defenceless Elwdom, whereby she scooped up the confiscated capital revenue and assets of Elwynnese corporations and private individuals and thereby constituted yet another hoard of plunder which the Verionists have snatched away from the hard-working citizen. The Crime of Eki in 1664 matches the Crime of Ludovic in 1644. The Verionists grow rich on loot stolen from the Benacian people. The Southern League will support every effort and every means utilised to recover all, in terms of wealth and territory, which has been stolen from Elwdom.

We note that the Verionist mouthpiece – the petty tyrant of Fieldburg – has seen fit to attempt to denigrate the Nationalist and Humanist Party by associating it with the ideology of Khanism, which indeed informed the societal and organisational structure of the Harmonious Society in Babkha and the Coordinated State in Elwynn. Let us take the situation he describes and consider it in the Elwynnese context. Under the Coordinated State there existed trade, there existed governance, there existed the rule of law, there existed networks of guilds and corporations supporting a system of public administration down to the Bailiwick level, and nationally here existed functioning legislative and judicial systems. Now what do we have in Elwynn today? In the southern counties we have vacant governorships where the cantons have had to make arrangements to govern themselves. In the north, that supposed bastion of liberty, no law exists and only the despotic writ of the so-called Queen carries any weight. What legislature is there? None! What constitution is there? None! What judiciary is there there? None! The tyrant queen has a church and an army, nothing else – and all the noise of the Verionist Union, chasing the phantoms of Vanic temple guardians organised in some fantastical “Vanic Web” is a frantic effort to distract the rest of the Imperial Republic from this reality.

Objectively the people of this Imperial Republic must see and must realise that it is not upon Modan Hamlet or the Steward's Tower in Shirekeep where the spectre of despotism today lays, but rather it is upon the Prefect's Palace, and the Despot's halls in Wolfraven, wherein the exercise of untrammelled power is carried out burnished by fanaticism, ignorance, and networks of corruption.

[Hartmut Aldric]

Stephen Lewis issued a short reaction to the latest IDP/N&H campaign against the Verionist Union:

"Thanks to the IDP and N&H for showing clearly that they have formed a secret election pact against the citizens of Shireroth. They have coordinated their campaign and try to silence us. The VU emerges as the only true opposition to Vanic-appeasing dictatorship."

IDP Press Spokesperson: The unhinged and unwarranted paranoia of the Verionist Union strikes again. Allow me to explain something to them - of course, the Verionist Union finances itself on the stolen proceeds from their corruption and selfishness, so perhaps a course on campaign finance is in order at this time.

During an election, especially in a nation as large as Shireroth, a political movement finds itself as the election's end nears, having to make a decision on where to move resources, effort, and most of all money to make a real impact and hopefully, gather more support and more seats.

The IDP is financed by the contributions of millions of Shirerithians that support the party. We do not accept money from special interests, we do not accept money from cabals and large corporations. Almost 100% of all our finance comes from regular folks, donating whatever they can to support our campaign. I understand that is very hard to understand for a movement that has built itself by stealing, lying, and engaging in mass corruption.

In areas where the IDP has opted to withdraw its resources and move them elsewhere, we have endorsed movements and candidates that, at the very least, share most of our desire to make Shireroth better: improve our infrastructure, make our military stronger, invest in education, among other things.

Now this doesn't mean that we're 100% in agreement with them - even many of those who support us don't always see eye to eye, 100% of the time, with us. But they recognize that in this election, we are a superior choice. In Elwynn, wherever the choice is between the Verionists and someone else, you can take this to the bank: we will always find and support the alternative to a regime of murder, theft, and corruption, period.

It's clear: in this election, Shireroth needs serious people to solve serious problems. The Verionists are too busy stealing, lying, cheating - and issuing unhinged and paranoid statements like these.

[Kaiser Ayreon IV]

I am now calculating the final vote result for the Folksraad, anything new will be counted towards the results in the Adelaraad, thank you.

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DECISION OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Folksraad elections

The Folksraad elections for the 995 declared seats are confirmed. The Landsraad may, however, resolve, if it finds that there have been electoral irregularities in any constituency, to call for new elections in that constituency, overseen by the Electoral Commission.

Any by-elections, including the ones to fill any vacant constituencies, shall be overseen by the Electoral Commission.


Adelsraad election 1665

1. The Adelsraad elections are overseen by the Electoral Commission. All ballots will be distributed by the Electoral Commission. All voting stations will be managed by the Electoral Commission.

2. Parties are eligible for automatic registration for ballots in an imperial state that they have or have previously represented in either the Folksraad or the Adelsraad, including the Folksraad elections in 1665.

3. Parties are eligible for automatic registration for ballots in all imperial dominions if they have or have previously been represented from any imperial dominion in either the Folksraad or the Adelsraad, including the Folksraad elections in 1665.

4. A previously unregistered party will be on the ballot in a particular imperial state if the party has informed the Electoral Commission and the imperial state in question of its intentions to participate in that imperial state.

5. A previously unregistered party may register to appear on the ballot in one or more imperial dominions or the General Constituency if it informs the Electoral Commission of its intentions to participate in that dominion, or those dominions, or that constituency.