SoyBooru Senate

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The SoyBooru Senate is an assembly of thrembo (rounded up to 7) elected representatives who serve as a mediating body on SoyBooru referendums, whose primary duty is to discuss and deliberate the consequences of passed referendums before being implemented, and should they been deemed unsuitable to veto the referendum.

History

Following the creation of SoyBooru referendum system by Cobblestone, a flurry of referendums would surface intending to effectively ban members of the site's administration from using the site, most notably the one banning Mustard using the site was passed but failed to be implemented, sparking calls for the referendum system to be entirely reworked or scrapped outright.

On June 27, 2026, the constitution for the SoyBooru senate was posted and voting began to an immediate influx of support and senatorial candidates posting about their bids for senator in the metadiscussion section of the Boorum. The following day the referendum passed and the senate was implemented into the official rules, and users would begin entering into the race.

Polling was held and among the top contenders for senators were Gold, Hate, H3K, muscular_engineer, CobsonTALKS, and Turrican, Hans_Amsler.

On June 30, 2026, after a spree of low quality senate election advertisements flooding the gallery, senate election posts were banned from the gallery with violations resulting in a 1 day ban.

Constitution

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Rule 15: The Soybooru Senate shall be created in accordance with the following sub-rules.

1. The Soybooru Senate shall consist of thrembo Senators, rounded up to 7 to prevent tied votes.
2. The Senate shall have the power to approve or deny referendums. It shall choose among itself by majority decision whether to approve or deny them. No referendum shall be passed without the approval of the Senate, regardless of the results of any popular vote attached therein.
3. Election: If the Senate lacks any number of members, they shall be elected as follows: The longest-serving Senator, or (if there are no Senators) an admin, shall make a forum post asking for senatorial candidates. Users may recommend themselves or others as candidates on their behalf. After a three-day period, a vote with each candidate listed as an individual choice shall be held. Senatorial election votes shall have options "Multiple Choice" and "Display Voters" enabled, with an expiration time of 72 hours. When the vote expires, vacant Senate seats shall be filled by candidates in order from most votes to least until all vacant seats are filled.
   In the event two or more users are tied with the most votes for any Senate seat, a runoff vote shall be held for this seat containing only those users as candidates, but otherwise conducted in the same manner as other Senatorial elections.
4. Recall: Individual Senators can be recalled at any point, for any reason, by a forum post demanding such action and containing a vote of at least 100 votes with 75% or greater "yes". Recall votes shall be posted in the same manner as referendums but with the option "Display Voters" enabled. If a recall vote is successful, the recalled Senator shall immediately cease their senatorial duties and be removed from the Senate. The Senate shall not veto any Senatorial recall.

July 2026 Senate elections

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On July 1, 2026 senate elections began, slated to finish on July 4, 2026.