Senator Noran looks bemusedly between the two of them.

"Can I answer some questions for you?"

"Am I being charged with something?"

"The post-coup government of Calado has announced their intent to hold members of the previous Calador government under Calador law -" she frowns, looks something up - "pursuant to national security. Huh, okay - so you're not charged with anything under galactic law, you are being held under Calador authority, and they handed you over to us because of a lack of local prison capacity that was secure and compatible with galactic standards."

"...is there an estimate of the duration of the security arrest?"

" - a week for the election, to be determined after that probably not exceeding a few months."

Sigh.

She sends him sailing options.

He will go sailing.

And Vanda Nossëo supervises a membership vote.

Turnout's low. Too low.

Ugh.

"We can do another one in three months, have people canvassing for it and explaining to people they actually need to vote."

"Why three months, why can't we just get people to fill out the ballots they already have a bit late?" asks Emergency President Insho.

"- I can file for an emergency extension of the voting period but you're really supposed to do that before you start tallying votes, looks like you're trying to massage the numbers otherwise. People do want out, they just mostly didn't bother saying so."

"I went on TV about it about thirty times in two days," says the president, "I am happy to have people going door to door too, I just thought this would be obviously unlike another vote between this elderly well-embedded senatorial hopeful and that one..."

"It seems like your population has some learned helplessness about civic engagement. I'll file for an emergency extension."

"Mm-hm. Thanks."

dude vote

I can't find the ballot my brother may have decided it was going to kill us

you can pick up a new one we check on our end if anyone voted twice

oh, okay

if not enough people vote you can't join

Adro's gonna take a bunch in to school and badger the other kids

good for him

we're short millions of people though