For those with the problem of their colony not finishing elections:
In my colony, elections would trigger and I would get messages about potential candidates. But eventually, nothing would happen and the election text in the sidebar would disappear.
I searched for answers and found someone on reddit who had the same problem, and was able to fix it but wasn't sure how. He listed off several things he had done, including disabling his Colony Manager mod.
I had that mod, so I decided to try that (despite my love for it) and it didn't fix the election that was already underway (as expected) so I forced another one and, finally, I have a mayor. The only other change I made was unrestricting everyone's schedule.
So, I would suggest doing one of those two things if you're having that problem. I highly suspect it was a compatibility issue with Colony manager, for some reason. Luckily, I was able to disable it without any problems.
In my colony, elections would trigger and I would get messages about potential candidates. But eventually, nothing would happen and the election text in the sidebar would disappear.
I searched for answers and found someone on reddit who had the same problem, and was able to fix it but wasn't sure how. He listed off several things he had done, including disabling his Colony Manager mod.
I had that mod, so I decided to try that (despite my love for it) and it didn't fix the election that was already underway (as expected) so I forced another one and, finally, I have a mayor. The only other change I made was unrestricting everyone's schedule.
So, I would suggest doing one of those two things if you're having that problem. I highly suspect it was a compatibility issue with Colony manager, for some reason. Luckily, I was able to disable it without any problems.