With the RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT of a new election comes, predictably, the election of a new leader of Wizarding Britain! The election itself will take place IC on October 19th and OOC from October 5th to 19th, with campaigning starting now! Do you have interested characters? Excellent. We want them.

STEP ONE
Post the following form below on the applicable account, provided that they…

• Are at least half-human
  
• Are 21+ years of age
  
• Are alive (sorry, no ghosts!)
  
• Have 25+ IC posts
  
• Have been active for at least one month (as of the day you enter them)

Once your post has been liked by Beanie, you can move on! Please register on or before September 25th.
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[b]Character:[/b]
[b]Age as of July 17th, 1893:[/b]
[b]Notable Accomplishments:[/b]
[b]Political Leaning:[/b] Far Right, Centre-Right, Centre, Centre-Left, Far Left

STEP TWO
SUBMIT AN ARTICLE to the Daily Prophet (CCing BEANIE Cassius Lestrange) indicating your character’s intention to run. This article should be written by you yourself and include a bit of background on your character. It should be no fewer than 100 and no more than 400 words in length. This should be published by Ian Pengloss from July 20th to October 1st. Once your article has been published, you can move on!

STEP THREE
Campaign! Campaigning can help earn you realism votes (dictated OOC), as well as help to get your name out there for characters to see. What might campaigning entail?

• Hosting campaign events and rallies*
  
• Have these covered in the DP or WW
  
• Attending various events and schmoozing
  
• Closed-door conversations
  
• Publishing a platform in the DP—this should be separate from your announcement for running
  
• Posting campaign posters on the community bulletin, or purchasing ad space (UC/MC only—clear with ) in WW
  
• Publishing a candidate profile in the DP or WW

Of course, these are just general ideas. Speak to a member of staff with any questions or suggestions! NOTE: Please post campaign logs here.

CATCHES

• Only six candidates will make it on the final ballot. On October 3rd, staff will decide who four of these are based on qualifications and effort thus far. The remaining two slots will be filled at random from the remaining candidates! We will limit these slots to one per player.
  
• Candidates can have rumours—positive or negative—circulate about them at any time, without any basis in fact, and without consent.
  
• If your character falls inactive at any time and for any reason from the day you sign up until the election, they’re out.
  
• If elected, things like character death must be approved by staff with notice. We also will reserve the right to NPC your character in terms of articles should she/he/they fall inactive after election.

But Beanie, what about the actual voting? As in the past, we’ll be doing a combination of IC voting (for eligible characters), OOC voting (for those who don’t have eligible voters), and Realism Votes to make up the rest of the Wizarding World. A complete list of eligible voters will be released late in September ?

Q&A

• reactivated characters, like new characters, must wait a month to qualify!

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MJ made this!

Character: Ozymandias Dempsey
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 36
Notable Accomplishments: being male, being wealthy
Political Leaning: Centre-Left

I was thinking to myself hmmm Oz's political leaning will be hard to label, he's a bit all over the place on different issues then I realized his entire politick can be distilled to "thinks he's better than most people, hates anyone who thinks they're better than him." So...

Anti-purist
Anti-nobility
Anti-nepotism dynasties like the Lestranges
Anti-feminist only because it antagonizes his sisters, secretly pro women's rights xD
non-humans: gross
half-humans: gross
poor people: gross

May or may not be running to settle a bet.

Definitely did not consult with his wife about this first.

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MJ is the light of my life <3

Character: Lionel Lupin
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 40
Notable Accomplishments: Head of Investigation Department, he was an auror
Political Leaning: Centre-Right

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Character: Timoleon Maxime
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 32
Notable Accomplishments: DMLE Assistant Head
Political Leaning: Far Right

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   Cassius Lestrange, Philomena Sprout, Seneca Lestrange

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Thank you Stef for this beauty<3

Character: Jude Wright
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 32
Notable Accomplishments: trained as a lawyer; political activist, organises and participates in rallies & demonstrations, writer of many social justice pamphlets
Political Leaning: Far Left/Radical Progressive

(aka pro universal suffrage for men and women; working class rights; class + blood + gender equality; non-human rights; Irish home rule etc)

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Character: Aldous Crouch
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 38
Notable Accomplishments:

Head, Department of International Magical Co-Operation, since 1886
Once rescued his sister from a burning building

Political Leaning: Centre

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— Aldous walks with a cane and pronounced limp as the result of a splinching accident. —

— graphics by lady ❤ —

Character: Charles Macmillan
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 33
Notable Accomplishments: Born into privilege
Former Ass. Head of the Department of Magical Co-Operation (1887-1890)
Current junior assistant to the Minister (1890 - present)
Sacrificed his pride to kiss the ass of his political opposite for three years and counting #SlytherinAF #dedication #blessed
Fought a secret duel over a woman and didn't get caught, coincidentally the last time he plans on losing to anyone ever again
Political Leaning: Publically: Center
Privately: Far right

He's been keeping close to Justin Ross to hopefully earn the trust of the more liberal voters and will present himself publicly as a middle ground candidate, only pitching his true political ideology in private to trustworthy like-minded people. He may end up center-right, I don't know, I can only tell you that he is aiming to please everyone to get elected.

PSA: If you are female, eligible, and better than Tatiana Lestrange you could be in with a chance of being Mrs. Minister, please form an orderly line.
_{Please note all arrogance is that of Charles and not his writer.}

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Character: Sweetie Whitledge
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 21
Notable Accomplishments:

Has that Rich Bitch Energy.
Had joined the Transfiguration club in 1883 in her first year and became president of said club in 1887, showing commitment and leadership skills. Only left upon graduation.
Was a member of the Dueling club from 1884 until her graduation.
Trained from 1888 to 1889 to become an animagus and her efforts were successful.
Had respectable employ in the Being Division of the Ministry of Magic from 1890 to 1893.
Won third place in The Teapot Transfiguration Trials in 1891.
Has been a respectable member of The Society for the Transfiguration Arts from 1891 to Present Time.
Has been in respectable employ of the Department of Mysteries as an Unspeakable since Early 1893.

Political Leaning: Centre-Left

I like Oz's format for political leanings, so I'm just gonna list that as well for context and my own record.

Anti-purist
Neutral towards Nobility
Distaste for Nepotism but won't take a hard stance publicly
Pro-Feminism
Non-humans: Eh
Half-humans: Deserve rights
Poor people: Ew

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   Cassius Lestrange

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Magic by Lady!

Wanna be there for Sweetie during her post-election slump?

Character: Bernard Prewett
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 52
Notable Accomplishments: nominated him for the Wizengemot by Faris Spavin at only 31 - but it didn't go ahead. Deputy Head of the Department of Mysteries,
Political Leaning: Entirely Centre

He was nominated by one of those friends who keeps sending him animals with the same name as him.

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   Cassius Lestrange

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Character: Emerett Picardy
Age as of July 17th, 1893: 53
Notable Accomplishments: Former Auror/Werewolf Capture Unit/Research Committee (20 years Ministry experience); author of some bigoted books
Political Leaning: Centre Right on most things! He doesn't care about muggles! ... except for his publicly hardline anti-halfbreeds and non-humans stance.

he will happily bow out if another candidate wants to court his favour for an ~endorsement from an extremist >.>

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To answer a question, candidate selection will be moved to Oct. 3 to allow staff time to parse candidate logs/account for the AC.

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MJ made this!