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Director Election

It's this time of the year again, the Director Election!

What is This?
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 * This is an election to decide the new director of The 'Shroom. Naturally, the one with the most votes wins the title.
 * If a director retires, then an election is held again in the latest issue of The 'Shroom.
 * An election takes place every December Issue regardless whether an election has already been held that year.
 * The current director may run in elections if they wish.
 * This election will start December 22nd.
 * In the January issue (Saturday 19th) the winner will be announced, and he or she will have at most a week to announce his Core Staff in the comments section at the bottom of the page, as well as his calendar.
 * There will be a debate between the candidates, please also state when you can participate in the debate, to get this to work.


 * Candidate Rules

===Candidate=== What will you do, etc.
 * Anyone may run for director during any time of the election (except in Overtime), but they must have a forum account.
 * Only a user may run for himself or herself, another user cannot nominate him or her.
 * All candidates must say what changes will they make. They can also campaign to promote voting for them.
 * Campaigns must use acceptable grammar (judgment is given to the Core Staff).
 * Campaigns must be original. Nobody is allowed to steal another candidate's ideas. However, if campaigns, for the most part, differ from each other or have key elements to which the candidates disagree on, then sharing a few ideas here and there is allowed.
 * No joke campaigns are allowed to be ran.
 * No bribing voters is allowed.
 * Candidates can also hold debates among them in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
 * This is what a voting section should look like:
 * 1) X
 * 2) X
 * 3) X

So as you can see, that candidate has three votes.


 * Voter Rules


 * Voters may vote with their username, no signatures allowed, or they opt to list themselves as X ( X ) in order for their vote to not be immediately identifiable– note that people may see who voted in such a manner in the page editing history.
 * Anonymous editors (who do not sign in to edit) are not allowed to cast votes. If you have an account and are simply logged out, please sign in to your account. If you want to vote and you do not have an account, simply create one, sign in, and vote!
 * Voters may only cast one vote.
 * Voters may change their vote at any time while the election is in progress.


 * Ties


 * This is the process which will be used to settle ties and deadlocked elections. If there are any run-off elections as specified in the points below, no new candidates will be admitted into the election, and all candidates that did not tie at the end of a round of voting may not move on to the next one.
 * If two candidates tie at the end of the election, then they can either agree to settle the election and become Co-directors or work out some other deal, or they can move forward into a one week run-off election between said candidates. If three or more candidates tie, then the election will automatically move forward into a one week run-off election between said candidates.
 * If the run-off election ends and two candidates are still tied, they may either agree to become Co-directors or work out some other deal, or the election will move into the hands of an organized voting committee. If the run-off election ends and three or more candidates are still tied, the election will automatically move into the hands of an organized voting committee.
 * The voting committee will consist of the writers of each individual team that shall not have joined later than the date that the Director Election began on and must exclude all candidates in the election. Each member on the voting committee will be allocated one (and only one) vote, and may cast their vote for any candidate that remains from the run-off election. They may also choose to cast a vote of neutrality or may choose not to cast a vote at all.
 * The procedure of the voting will be that each Member of the committee shall send their vote via Private Message on the Super Mario Boards to all candidates in the Election and all Core Staff members. At the end of a one week time period, the votes will be tallied, the individual that receives a plurality of the votes shall be the declared the winner of the election, but the candidates must agree to the validity of the tally before said declaration is made. If such an agreement cannot be reached, then the current Core Staff can choose to certify or reject the tally totals by a majority vote.
 * A vote cast by a Member of the committee shall be known only to the candidates and the Core Staff for purposes of privacy unless said Member has given their permission for this information to be released publicly.
 * If the voting committee winds up voting in a tie, then a one week run-off election will be held amongst the committee members with the same procedure outlined in the above three bullets.
 * In the case that any of the above procedures cause the election to extend beyond the release of the January issue, it will fall to the staff that has directed the January issue to direct the February issue and serve for that one month out of the new Directorial Term.


 * Duties of the Director

This is what you must do if you win, so read carefully.


 * The director must accept or decline all new writers' ideas for sections they want to write.
 * The director assigns a section to users who want to write, but don't know what to write.
 * The director gives out a warning to users who have not yet sent in their sections one week before The 'Shroom is due.
 * The director puts The 'Shroom together, and edits the front page, the single page, the 'Shroombox template, and the Shroom Issue template.
 * The director writes the Director's Notes section, which comments about the month's issue.
 * The director includes the due date of the next 'Shroom in the Director's Notes, and in the Shroomwarning template.
 * The director gets to choose his Core Staff, this is, Fake News, Fun Stuff, Music & Art, Pipe Plaza, Critic Corner directors and Sub-Director.
 * The director must send applications to users who want to become writers.

Looks easy? It is not. So get ready.

Now get out there and go!