{"id":7924,"date":"2026-06-22T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:30:50","slug":"who-can-vote-and-how-to-get-a-ballot-in-baronial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/?p=7924","title":{"rendered":"Who can vote and how to get a Ballot in Baronial election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Iris Festival last month, Baronessa Violeta and Praetoria Prima announced their intent to retire. That means that we the citizens of The Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands must elect new Baronage. We start the process with the nomination meeting at the garb swap in North Park on July 12th. Nominated candidates, must be paid members of the SCA and adults, (18 or older), and reside within the Barony zip codes or be a registered non-resident barony citizen.<br><br>After the nomination meeting, the nominated candidates must respond within a month whether they accept the nomination. That&#8217;s when election season starts. We will mail ballots to our members. If you are 17 years old paid member* that resides in the Barony we will mail you a ballot to the address that is on record with SCA corporate. If you are a non-resident citizen we will mail the ballot to your address on record with the seneschal and herald. If you aren&#8217;t a paid member, or don&#8217;t live in barony, or your address isn&#8217;t current in the records, you can ask for a ballot in writing to the committee chairman: Hara Kikumatsu, address: Sharon Booth, 1105 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, or email bmdl@aethelmearc.org.\u00a0 <strong>NOTE: You must request a ballot by the nominating meeting, on Sunday July 12th.<\/strong><br><br>*17 years of age as of October 18th, 2026 (our best guess for ballot counting day).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Iris Festival last month, Baronessa Violeta and Praetoria Prima announced their intent to retire. That means that we the citizens of The Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands must elect new Baronage. We start the process with the nomination meeting at the garb swap in North Park on July 12th. Nominated candidates, must be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/?p=7924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who can vote and how to get a Ballot in Baronial election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7925,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/7925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debatablelands.aethelmearc.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}