Hello everyone,
For those that don't know, I am Emily Whitehorse of the San Andreas State Government and am the Director that oversees the day to day functioning of the LRC alongside my Deputy Director Andy. Firstly, I want to appoligize on the delayed response. As most people know, I don't frequent the Eclipse forums as ill be frank, I don't enjoy when people shout at each other in reports. That being said, when the original system was created for the December 2022 election (our first), we had a lot of concerns about voter fraud both IC and OOC as well as questions just on how to properly run an election where it had never been done before. Myself not being administration staff, I don't have the same access say Lewis might to individually check and confirm each vote nor have access to see the surveillance done on possible linked accounts.
While i dream having it be done scriptly in game, the truth is that while we can have a large impact on things, the LRC remains small enough that I doubt the developers even know we exist. I am certainly open to the adoption of a google forum as i think the accessibility alone is reason enough to implement it. It should be noted that with the changes the SAAA tried to implement, server administration is not keen on the collection of emails. Thus using those emails alongside an IP address (as can be done on the GOV website) for verification by LFM of who voted is much more difficult. At the very least, I can certainly see us making the GOV website link more visible by changing the link name & color during elections, or finding other ways to make it more pronounced. Additionally, with the reopening of lifeinvader, we will be able to make it more widely known in an IC context and I think that will be extremely beneficial.
With what TheCactus, Pazz, & Herrman_Wolff said about making "forum.eclipse-rp.net" have more IC information presented to better reach everyone, I fully agree with the concept and would be happy to discuss it with the relevant staff if this was going to be implemented.
Finally, if anyone has more IC/OOC comments about the LRC in general that they wish to share, I encourage them to reach out to me (IC via GOV email, OOC via discord or forum PM) as I am always am open to hearing and discussing what I can do to improve the system that is in place.
also if anyone is curious, Herrman said it was a good idea to respond to a 2 month old post blame him!
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