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=== The July Elections ===

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|+The July 2024 SwagBalls Election
|colspan = 3 style="font-size:120%;text-align:center"| '''July 14, 2024''' 
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|style="text-align:left"| ←[[User:WalterWhiteOnWiki#The_March_Elections|March 2024]]<ref group="editor's note"> Link should lead to the SwagBalls wiki, not '''Walter''''s user page </ref>
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|style="text-align:right"|
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|colspan=3 style="text-align:center;"| Plurality of votes needed to win
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|'''Turnout''' 
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionArrowDown.png|12px]] 81.8% of registered voters <ref group=note> Representing 1.65% of the total population. </ref> 
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| || [[File:FlamingTesticleElection.png|150px|center]] ||[[File:BarleyPFPelection2.png|150px|center]]
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| '''Nominee''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| '''Flaming Testicle (Left)'''
|style="text-align:center;"| '''Barley'''
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|'''Party''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| '''Swagstuck Funny'''<br>'''Peter Party'''
|style="text-align:center;"| '''Holy Wizard Council'''
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|'''Ideology'''
| style="text-align:center;"| Drawing His Peters <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry girardism]
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community Greater Community Involvement] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20government Government Transparency (Moderate)] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry girardism] <br> [https://irony.wiki/wiki/File:69SwagBalls420.png Not Giving a Swag]
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|'''Votes''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| '''8'''
|style="text-align:center;"| '''5''' <br> <ref group="note"> With support for vice-presidency from '''Shitmaster LarKcuavian'''. </ref>
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|'''Percentage 
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionLine.png|12px]] '''29.6%'''
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionArrowUp.png|12px]] '''18.5%'''
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| || [[File:XertunposterPFPelections.png|150px|center]] || [[File:LarKcPFPelection2.png|150px|center]] || 
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|'''Nominee''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| Xertun
|style="text-align:center;"| Shitmaster LarKcuavian
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|'''Party''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| Independent
|style="text-align:center;"| Moexist-Lesterist <br> Vanguard Party <br> Holy Wizard Council
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|'''Ideology'''
| style="text-align:center;"| idk <br> placeholder <br> placeholder
| style="text-align:center;"| [[69MoeLester420|Moexism-Lesterism]] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry girardism] <br> [https://irony.wiki/wiki/File:69SwagBalls420.png Not Giving a Swag] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo Status Quo] 
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|'''Votes''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| 6 
|style="text-align:center;"| 4
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|'''Percentage 
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionLine.png|12px]] 22.2%
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionArrowDown.png|12px]] 14.8%
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| || [[File:BallistyxPFPelection2.png|150px|center]] ||[[File:BorisChicoPFPelections.png|150px|center]]
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|'''Nominee''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| Ballistyx 
|style="text-align:center;"| Boris Chico
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|'''Party''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| Communist Party of Swagcord
|style="text-align:center;"| Communist Party of Swagcord <br> Sudacan Liberal Campaign
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|'''Ideology'''
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge Coal Purge] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community Greater Community Involvement]
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order_(politics) Law and Order] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement Barring Inactive Users from Voting]
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|'''Votes''' 
|style="text-align:center;"| 2
|style="text-align:center;"| 2
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|'''Percentage 
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionArrowUp.png|12px]] 7.4% 
|style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionLine.png|12px]] 7.4%
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|colspan = 2 | [[File:KoknesePFPelection2.png|150px|center]]
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|'''Nominee''' 
|colspan = 2 style="text-align:center;"| Dainis Koknese
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|'''Party''' 
|colspan = 2 style="text-align:center;"| New Sharty Party
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|'''Ideology'''
| colspan = 2 style="text-align:center;"| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics Right-Wing] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics Far-Right] <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption Pro-corruption] <br> Anti-Moderation Team <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20government Government Transparency (Radical)] <br> Increasing the Size of '''#🏛the-senate''' <br> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_immigration Anti-Immigration]
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|'''Votes''' 
|colspan = 2 style="text-align:center;"| Disqualified
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|'''Percentage 
|colspan = 2 style="text-align:center;"| [[File:ElectionArrowDown.png|12px]] 0%
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==== Background ====

==== Debate ====

The '''Presidential Debate''' was organized and moderated by '''Decoherence''' in the '''#🤓-debate-channel''' on Saturday night, a few hours before voting was set to start. Although only candidates that received the support of at least two users were invited to the debate, possibly eliminating up to four candidates at the time, '''Lin''' giving support to all minor candidates and dropping out of the race herself enabled everyone to attend. '''Boris Chico''' and '''Ballistyx''', of the <b style="color:#00CC99">SDC</b> and the <b style="color:#0f9ed5">CPoS</b> respectively, had also chosen to support each others campaign in order to help each other get into the debate, with both eventually coalescing together under the <b style="color:#0f9ed5">CPoS</b>.
[[File:XertunCat.jpg|left|thumb|224x224px|'''Xertun'''<nowiki/>'s cat, posted in the middle of the debate. The cat is walking behind a couch.]]
In classic debate night fashion, hi-jinks soon ensued. Although supposed to go first, '''Meme_Alt_Account''' was allegedly drunk at the time and forgot to attend the debate, leading to '''Lin''' stepping in their place and giving answers on behalf of <b style="color:#009999">DG</b>. '''Xertun''', on the other hand, not only thought the debate was an entire day later, but was also convinced it was a '''Senatorial''' debate, not a '''Presidential''' one, a story made even more tragic by the fact that he had plans to prepare for this one in advance. '''Flaming Testicle (left)''' was late, however, '''Walter''' covered for him in his absence, and it is believed not a single person noticed. During all of this, '''Decoherence''' forgot to give out the talking pillow several times, leading to minutes of silence on air. All in all, the start of the debate was deemed a major success.
[[File:XertunCat3.jpg|left|thumb|272x272px|'''Xertun'''<nowiki/>'s cat stretching out. A fierce hunter ready to pounce.]]
Electoral questions rolled as candidates, when they were present, answered them with their plans on how to make the server a better place for all through achieving their vision for the server. How will community volunteer work be encouraged, '''Barley''' was inquired; how will Peters be drawn, '''Testicle''' was asked; why did several suspected alt accounts join to vote for you in the election, '''Dainis''' was questioned.

The jig was up. The conversation shifted from a sloppy electoral debate to a televised trial, live on air. Providing a list of several accounts that have sprung up from inactivity to suddenly proclaim their loyalty to the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b>, a scheme of electoral meddling was suddenly revealed for the world to see. Six accounts, registered to vote, with credible ties to '''Ragecord''' and the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b> campaign were unveiled. A string of accounts, joining the voter registry in quick succession. '''Dainis''' would state that he only recognized a single one.
[[File:XertunCat2.jpg|left|thumb|158x158px|'''Xertun'''<nowiki/>'s cat, holding an apple. A dragon guarding its treasure.]]
Claiming a psy-op was at work, a set-up to have him framed and disqualified, '''Dainis''' continued to deny these accusations to the bitter end. It was to no use. The '''mods''' possessed a mountain of compounding evidence. For the high crime of attempted electoral fraud and perjury, '''Walter''' disqualified '''Dainis''' from the presidential race live on stage. <ref> '''Walter''' (July 13, 2024) [https://discord.com/channels/938728183203758080/1217576340748767363/1261763893752234035 For the high crime of attempted election fraud and subsequent perjury, Dainis of the NSP has been disqualified from the race.] ''69SwagBalls420 Cord'' '''#🤓-debate-channel''' </ref>

The debate soon ended, and the polls were opened. '''The Senate''' tried to overturn '''Dainis''''s disqualification, repeating '''Dainis''''s claims of a criminal framing to be at work, to no use. Their motion was struck down and vetoed. Although '''Senator Charter''' (<b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b>) claimed that the veto was an undemocratic use of power by the mod team, an attempted attack on the very essence of the server's democracy was just foiled, an act that was attempted to be overturned. The presidential ballot, with its first disqualification in '''SwagBalls''' history, remained without '''Dainis'''.

==== Election Fraud ====

 *record scratch*
You are probably wondering how the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b> got itself into this situation. To find out that, we have to go back. Way back.

On July 6, at the very start of the election campaign period, '''Walter''' received a private message. It was from '''Chauka''', and carried troubling news. The citizens of '''Ragecord''', responsible for the failed coup in May, were at it again, once more trying to subvert '''SwagBallian''' democracy. Realizing that a loud and bombastic route was no way to go, a more sinister scheme was being plotted - election fraud. In an election as small as this one, even a few votes are enough to sway the results, and according to the intelligence received, several alt accounts were to be used in order to manipulate the results in the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b>'s favor. The login information of one of the accounts was provided, through which it was verified the threat was to be considered legitimate.

Several days pass. '''Dainis''' joins '''Ragecord''', only to disappear in seconds. Moments later, '''georgebushsextape''', an account that is rarely ever active in '''SwagCord''', opens '''Ragecord''' to tell people to vote for the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b>. The plot is slowly starting to take shape. '''Walter''' shares the information that he got from '''Chauka''', stating that a non-insignificant amount of fraud is likely to take place. He shares two accounts, one '''Chauka''''s, the other one, '''georgebushsextape''', belonging to '''Dainis'''.

On July 12, an announcement is made. It clarifies that one will be unable to vote without being registered. A role is assigned to each and every voter who registers, allowing them to vote on the ballot. More interestingly, however, it gives the '''moderators''' a full list of who is allowed to vote. In the hours following the announcement, several new accounts register. Although some of them are '''SwagCord''' regulars, a majority of them are noticed to be inactive accounts with only a few messages on the server. None of them have any roles that could have been pinged, and would have no reason to check the server at this moment, however, they line up together like clockwork to register within hours of each other.

Among those suspicious accounts, another interesting one appears - and is immediately pitted. A confirmed '''Dainis''' alt, which left the server while it was in '''the Pit''', appears in formation with the other ones, however, due to instantly being pitted, it is unable to register to vote. Regardless, it serves as further confirmation that '''Dainis''' was the one behind the previous accounts joining the server. A list is formed. Profiles are collected. Accounts are verified, as far as that is possible. Eight names are written down. The rest are thrown out. All that remains is to wait for the perfect moment to put it all on the table.

 * '''Leonid Ilyich Brezhnyev''' <ref group="note"> '''Chauka''''s account, which was shared with '''Walter'''. It was never registered to vote. </ref>
 * '''georgebushsextape''' <ref group ="note"> '''Dainis''''s account, which he admitted owning. '''It was registered to vote.''' </ref>
 * '''xXxPronounGaming_YTxXx''' <ref group ="note"> A suspicious account that returned after weeks of inactivity. The profile picture showed '''Tony Zaret''', whom '''Dainis''' is a fan of. '''It was registered to vote.'''</ref>
 * '''Woke Abraham Lincoln''' <ref group ="note"> A suspicious account that returned after weeks of inactivity. Its username is similar in humor to the previous account. '''It was registered to vote.''' </ref>
 * '''Elon Mosque''' <ref group ="note"> A suspicious account that returned after months of inactivity. While active, it spent its time giving money to '''Dainis''' in the '''#🤑-gambling''' channel. '''It was registered to vote.'''</ref>
 * '''VAGINAL RAPER''' <ref group ="note"> An account created in reference to the user '''ANAL RAPER''', who has become a '''SwagCord''' urban legend due to his unconventional name. The account's knowledge of the server's inside jokes served as proof of it belonging to a server member. The account having '''Puffy''', the mascot of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD OpenBSD] operating system, served as proof of it (plausibly) belonging to '''Dainis'''. '''It was registered to vote.''' </ref>
 * '''Fred Durst''' <ref group ="note"> An account that cropped up in the server during '''The War...''' A reference to the '''Boom Pregnant''' meme, the account's knowledge of the server's inside jokes served as proof of it belonging to a server member. '''It was registered to vote.''' </ref>
 * '''jaunavienotiba''' <ref group ="note"> An account confirmed to belong to '''Dainis''', referencing the centre-right latvian party [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Unity New Unity (Jaunā Vienotība)]. Although pitted immediately, it rejoined the server in the same time frame as the previous accounts. It was never registered to vote.</ref>

==== The Modding of LarKc ====

With results already looking uncertain hours before the polls closed, it was becoming increasingly clear the '''Shitmaster LarKcuavian''' would be leaving office after the night was over. His place in the '''mod chat''' would be replaced by someone else. However, with four months already spent in '''#admin-family-guy-roleplay''', his presence had grown on some members of the '''mod team''', and the wish to keep him was especially felt at the top. As his final act as '''President''', '''Walter''' opened a vote to allow for the permanent addition of '''Shitmaster LarKcuavian''' to the server's '''mod team'''. Minutes before the presidential vote ended, '''LarKc''' was given moderating perms after a 6-0 vote, indicating support from a majority of the other '''moderators'''. The results were about to be opened to the public.

==== Results ====

The '''#🎫-voting-booth''' closes. The results are revealed. '''Flaming Testicle (left)''' wins the race, with a staggering 30% of the vote. A surprising and stunning victory, the joke candidate is widely believed to have won because of the <b style="color:#b20040">NSP</b> vote transferring to the <b style="color:#3cf23e">SFPP</b> camp after '''Dainis''''s disqualification. The <b style="color:#CC66FF">HWC</b> achieved a total of 9 votes between '''Barley''' and '''Shitmaster LarKcuavian''', although a combined total that is slightly more than that of '''Testicle''', unable to form a majority on their own. '''Xertun''''s strong debate performance once again translated into a strong showing, achieving 6 votes. Coalition building was soon to ensue.