The votes are in and they don’t even matter. For the past three weeks, the campaigns for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency have roughed, stuffed, and fizzled out leading to the conclusion of the first national at-large election.
The three campaigns registered early on were that of the Lewis-White, Albina-Uberquie, and Montan-Bainbridge tickets. Campaigning began with promotional material including a later published platform being released from the Commonwealth Renewal Movement (CRM), a front for supporters of the Lewis-White ticket. This was followed by material from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), a formerly defunct political party which Albina was a member of. On 8 August, the Party of Red July (PRJ) was founded which featured “Hewittism”, the guiding ideology of the breakaway territory of New Richmond, and the membership of Newton von Uberquie.
The campaign of the Montan-Bainbridge ticket would later end with Thomas Bainbridge dropping from the partnership and the resignation of his citizenship on 11 August. Later, the Albina-Uberquie ticket would be annulled following the defection of Uberquie to a complete PRJ ticket with Dame Brooklyn Hewitt as his partner. Finally, on 13 August, the day before the election, Elizabeth Lewis would also resign her citizenship and the CRM ticket was declared invalid on election day.
When the election began, only the Lewis-White and Uberquie-Hewitt tickets remained and were included on the ballot, however, following the invalidation of the former, the Census Director summarily projected Uberquie as President-Elect and later described the election as “invalid”. Later correcting his description, he provided his intention was directed toward the votes for the dropped option.
The results were 8 votes for Uberquie-Hewitt, 57.14%, and 6 votes for non-standing Lewis-White, 42.86%. The election garnered an overall turnout of ~64%.
The New Virginian Herald 