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ELECTION DAY - Student Government
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blesstherains[Beginning immediately after the dining hall closes following breakfast Saturday morning, there are voting booths set up off to one side in the Xavier Mansion's main foyer, four little stands with a curtain to pull closed behind them while the student electorate gets its democracy on.
It's all paper ballots - computerized voting in a school full of gifted students prone to both the occasional hacking lark and the less-occasional smashing-things-frenzy just wouldn't be wise - handed out by a rotating crew of staff volunteers. They check each student's name off on the voter rolls and pass them a ballot with the elections their grade level is eligible to participate in, then let them into a booth, where the form can be filled out and folded and taped shut.
There are helpful notices posted both around the voting area and on each ballot reminding students that compromising the sanctity or the secrecy of the ballot via either mutant powers or more down-to-earth shenanigans is strictly prohibited and cause for mandatory after-school civics lessons with Prof. Logan for, like, the rest of your academic career. Students who feel that the nature of their powers may make such compromising inevitable are advised to ask a volunteer to let them fill out their ballot in an empty classroom away from the main election area.
After you vote, there's a table set up with free stickers and a tray of cookies and brownies and fresh coffee, which is secretly more for the volunteers' sake than any of the students. But that coffee smells so good, and you're not getting any unless you stand in line and do your duty as student-citizen...]
(OOC: Please cast your characters' votes under the first thread header below! Mingle-type threads and any other interactions can go under the other headers or in a new top-level.)
It's all paper ballots - computerized voting in a school full of gifted students prone to both the occasional hacking lark and the less-occasional smashing-things-frenzy just wouldn't be wise - handed out by a rotating crew of staff volunteers. They check each student's name off on the voter rolls and pass them a ballot with the elections their grade level is eligible to participate in, then let them into a booth, where the form can be filled out and folded and taped shut.
There are helpful notices posted both around the voting area and on each ballot reminding students that compromising the sanctity or the secrecy of the ballot via either mutant powers or more down-to-earth shenanigans is strictly prohibited and cause for mandatory after-school civics lessons with Prof. Logan for, like, the rest of your academic career. Students who feel that the nature of their powers may make such compromising inevitable are advised to ask a volunteer to let them fill out their ballot in an empty classroom away from the main election area.
After you vote, there's a table set up with free stickers and a tray of cookies and brownies and fresh coffee, which is secretly more for the volunteers' sake than any of the students. But that coffee smells so good, and you're not getting any unless you stand in line and do your duty as student-citizen...]
(OOC: Please cast your characters' votes under the first thread header below! Mingle-type threads and any other interactions can go under the other headers or in a new top-level.)
