Senate Vote: April 2015

[Pôl d'Aurìbuérg]

RZ31--PER
RZ32--PER
RZ33--PER
RZ34--AUS
RZ35--PER
RZ36--AUS
RZ37--PER
RZ38--PER
RZ39--PER
RZ40--PER
RZ41--CON
RZ42--CON
RZ43--AUS
RZ44--PER
RZ45--PER
RZ46--PER

[Munditenens Tresplet]

RZ31 - PER.

I believe that if we are going to overhaul our election law this much, we should just go ahead and move it all to El Lexhatx where it belonged (in statutory law) this whole time. That is why none of the following bills will receive my support:

RZ32 - AUS. Although I do support what this does, I'm holding true to my resolve not to vote on any of these election amendments. Are our elections really so messed up we need seven different amendments (or one single amendment/bill that is so large it had to be split into seven) to fix it?
RZ33 - CON. I'm not really sure that allowing a voter to go back and add to their ballot because they forgot to vote for a Senator is a good thing.
RZ34 - CON. I will also note that the ceremonial MC portion was in fact resolved by statute. This is, once again, an example of how we can resolve problems without amending Organic Law all the time. Quite frankly, it was never really a problem to begin with, and it especially isn't one now. Given that no one claims any ceremonial status currently, and it's already been resolved by statute, is this really necessary?
RZ35 - CON. The Hopper is a place where anyone can comment or discuss bills without having to be one of the few allowed to enter the Ziu, and this will only become more important as the population of our nation grows. But for that matter, a proposal can't be submitted to the Clark by just anyone, so why are we disallowing the general public to propose their own ideas to be discussed? What is the big deal about allowing a citizen to make a proposal in the Hopper in the hopes that a legislator picks up the ball and runs with it?
RZ36 - AUS. No problem with this necessarily, but see generally comments for RZ32.
RZ37 - CON. Wait wait wait, are we back to the MC constituency thing again? If both RZ34 and this bill passes, that means we will have "fixed" the "problem" three times now!
RZ38 - CON. I don't like bulleted points in what is basically our Constitution, especially given that this should (and I'm like a broken record here) be in El Lexhatx rather than OrgLaw. We shouldn't need to come back and amend Organic Law (which, FYI, is supposed to be rather difficult to do) every time we need to add, remove, or change something that a registered party needs to provide the Chancery with before every General Election. If we wanted to change 50 words to 75, why is it necessary to have such a proposal approved by 2/3rds of the Ziu, then voted on by the citizens as a referendum? Yes, it was already in there to begin with, but once again, see generally the comments made above.

RZ39 - PER.
RZ40 - PER.
RZ41 - AUS.
RZ42 - PER. Although I do have a couple minor concerns with this bill, I do generally support opening up Talossa to relations with micronationalists.
RZ43 - PER.
RZ44 - PER. A great bill.
RZ45 - PER. Welcome!
RZ46 - PER.