FOREST C. F.
On 2 April, 2024, Drew Tucker—leader of the Democratic Opposition announced their plan for an election fraud charge against the Sovereignty Party-led Ridgelantic government under accusations that elections for the third Piedmontic seat of the National Assembly had been altered. According to the Tukundy Times, the newspaper of the Democratic Opposition:
“Titus Tucker had been tied with Gary Ferrell with two votes left. However, Gary pulled away with 4 more votes in a ‘miscalculation’, though there were only 8 votes. This means (according to the government) ONE ENTIRE QUARTER of the votes were MISCOUNTED.”
Official Statement from the leader of the Democratic Opposition, The Tukundy Times
The Ridgelantic government had previously released results explaining the outcome of the election, along with President Forest Ferrell claiming the original electoral prediction for the D.O. to gain a seat in Piedmonton had been an estimation from a select amount of votes that had not been properly and actively counted. According to the Ridgelantic government, the main reason for the Sovereignty victory in the National Assembly involved runoff votes that awarded Gary in his run for the seat, along with the voters in the later stage of the election vying for the Sovereignty Candidate. Forest C. F. later responded to these claims in the Ridgelantic discord server, Ridgeland@Discord.
“These electoral fraud claims are terribly backed and mostly complete fabrication—Drew completely forgot the Ridgelantic ranked choice system and didn’t even read the electoral results. Reason he’s so mad was because I said there was “about a tie” (I was off by one vote on the tie thing) between the Sovereignty and D.O. candidates that was quickly changed in later stages of the election.“
”He uses these big numbers like ‘A QUARTER OF THE VOTES WERE MISCOUNTED’…That’s just a plan [sic] lie…Even if it was a quarter, that would only be like two votes off. There were eight votes in total for that seat.”
Forest C. F., Ridgeland@Discord
In order to quell election fraud claims, The Ridgelantic government also released pictures of all eight filled-in ballots for the seat to Democratic Opposition leadership, along with releasing a censored version online.
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