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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 5, 2011 1:59:36 GMT -6
Amendments to: The Election Laws for the Province of Maritiimi-Maxhestic
I. The size of the Provincial Assembly of Maritiimi-Maxhestic shall be equal to the number of citizens who voted for a registered political party in the most recent election. This is intended to give each individual voter their share of representation in the Assembly.
II. Registration as a political party is simple, and amounts to giving public notice to Maritiimi-Maxhestians a minimum of ten days before the election. This public notice shall be formally called the Sticla, and must be available on request to any potential voter. The Sticla must indicate who is the head of the party. The Head of the party named in the Sticla is the only person who can assign seats won by their party in the election . While it is not required to have information about the political positions and advocacies of the party, this is something that is recommended.
III. Elections shall be held in public, and shall begin at the time of national elections. They will be conducted by whoever is chosen unanimously by the outgoing Provincial Assembly; if no one is so chosen, then the Senator for the province shall be required to conduct the election. Elections shall run for exactly two weeks.
III. Elections shall be held in public, and shall begin at the time of national elections. They will be conducted by The Secretary of State. Unless the assembly passes a unanimous motion to name someone else to do it and the person so named accepts the responsibility of Conducting the Election. whoever is chosen unanimously by the outgoing Provincial Assembly if no one is so chosen,then the Senator for the province shall be required to conduct the election. Elections shall run for exactly two weeks.
IV. The head of each party named in the party Sticla shall distribute seats in the Assembly to citizens of the province. Any citizen may be designated to hold any a number of duly assigned seats. Accept that a single citizen can never again hold a majority in the assembly ie more than 50% of the total assigned seats in current the assembly. Seats may not be reassigned unless first voluntarily relinquished by their Assemblyperson, who may relinquish either all or any of their seats as they choose.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 5, 2011 14:18:44 GMT -6
I think the amendment to II is a good one, but I am still leery of the amendment to III. The change in IV is an interesting one, but unfortunately we may not be able to do that until M-M is bigger and has a few more active citizens.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 5, 2011 23:10:38 GMT -6
Amendment: part III.
Elections shall be held in public, and shall begin at the time of national elections. They will be conducted by whoever is chosen unanimously by the outgoing Provincial Assembly; if no one is so chosen, then the Secretary Of State Senator for the province shall be required to conduct the election. Elections shall run for exactly two weeks.
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Brad Holmes
Cunstaval to Maritiimi-Maxhestic
Atatürkey, and flying by the seat of my RUMP
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Post by Brad Holmes on Dec 6, 2011 8:42:33 GMT -6
Just the Cunstaval chiming in.
II. I know many parties designate Provincial Party Leaders. Could seat assignment not be delegated as long as long as the designation is made public or in the Sticla?
III (with both amendment). So M-Mers only have the first two weeks to vote during the General Election? If they vote during week 3 they don't have a voice on the Provincial level? Interesting.
IV. I agree with S:reu Davis.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 6, 2011 14:32:01 GMT -6
II. The leader can be anyone who is named in the sticla. This allows for provincial Parties Provincial Leaders
III. the two weeks allowed for voting is part of the original law authored by S:r Davis not being amended by these amendments.
IV It draws in part on the national Cosa laws were members can only hold 30 seats. Its does not appear very democratic that one person can hold a Majority in their own right and can pass Legislation or anything they like without being accountable to the assembly. We definitely have enough active people at the moment to make this work
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Brad Holmes
Cunstaval to Maritiimi-Maxhestic
Atatürkey, and flying by the seat of my RUMP
Posts: 1,014
Talossan Since: 3-16-2006
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Post by Brad Holmes on Dec 6, 2011 22:41:00 GMT -6
Thanks for letting me participate! II. OK. Would there be any way to modify a Sticla between elections? III. I know it is part of the existing law. Since changes are being proposed, why not add one more? Or at least discuss it; I'm curious why it was included in the first place. IV. How about this to clean up the clause: Amendments to: The Election Laws for the Province of Maritiimi-Maxhestic IV. The head of each party named in the party Sticla shall distribute seats in the Assembly to citizens of the province. Any citizen may be designated to hold any a number of duly assigned seats. Accept that a single citizen can never again hold a majority in the assembly ie more than 50% of the total assigned seats in current the assembly. Seats may not be reassigned unless first voluntarily relinquished by their Assemblyperson, who may relinquish either all or any of their seats as they choose. Any citizen may be designated to hold any number of duly assigned seats not to exceed 50% of the assigned seats in the current assembly.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 7, 2011 0:16:22 GMT -6
II a sticla is only lodged ten days before the election then basically after the election its not needed till its time to re register for the next election.
III Im not sure why its 2 weeks you would have to ask S:r Davis
IV thankyou I would be more than happy with your rewording its achieves exactly the same thing
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 10, 2011 16:42:14 GMT -6
I adopted two weeks because the plan is to eventually offer independent M-M elections, and I wanted to lay the groundwork for the procedure that would someday provide for that. It seems eminently reasonable to me, but of course since we're already making these changes to the law, it would be easy to amend it to permit elections to run longer.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 11, 2011 22:35:44 GMT -6
should i prepare a complete updated version of the amendments
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 14, 2011 14:57:39 GMT -6
Sure, that sounds good.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 14, 2011 17:39:34 GMT -6
I will try and have it done by Friday at the latest. I will omit time frame for election ?
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 15, 2011 3:11:31 GMT -6
However you'd like to do it - it's your bill.
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 17, 2011 0:05:15 GMT -6
Amendments to: The Election Laws for the Province of Maritiimi-Maxhestic
I. The size of the Provincial Assembly of Maritiimi-Maxhestic shall be equal to the number of citizens who voted for a registered political party in the most recent election. This is intended to give each individual voter their share of representation in the Assembly.
II. Registration as a political party is simple, and amounts to giving public notice to Maritiimi-Maxhestians a minimum of ten days before the election. This public notice shall be formally called the Sticla, and must be available on request to any potential voter. The Sticla must indicate who is the head of the party. The Head of the party named in the Sticla is the only person who can assign seats won by their party in the election. While it is not required to have information about the political positions and advocacies of the party, this is something that is recommended.
III. Elections shall be held in public, and shall begin at the time of national elections. They will be conducted by whoever is chosen unanimously by the outgoing Provincial Assembly; if no one is so chosen, then the Secretary Of State shall conduct the election.
IV. The head of each party named in the party Sticla shall distribute seats in the Assembly to citizens of the province. Any citizen may be designated to hold any number of duly assigned seats not to exceed 50% of the seats in the current assembly. Seats may not be reassigned unless first voluntarily relinquished by their Assemblyperson, who may relinquish either all or any of their seats as they choose.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 19, 2011 3:08:06 GMT -6
Isn't that the current law?
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Post by Istefan Lorentzescu on Dec 19, 2011 15:04:17 GMT -6
No ive added the amendments including our cunstavals input just haven't highlighted them
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