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Bill: Call for early elections, May 2372
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Coalition of the Willing
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill requests an early election. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline. Elections will be held immediately if the bill passes.
Voting deadline: April 2372
Description[?]:
| We, the AM Eastern Likaton Independence Party, call for early elections in May 2372, the traditional time. OOC this will put our weekly calendar back on track. |
Proposals
Article 1
Arrange early elections as soon as this bill passes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:04:47, March 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | If we do this, can we have them in April? Many Likatonians, we all know, go on vacation in May, and are forced to cast absentee ballots. OOC: That would move them back to the original time we agreed to. Now, most of the parties that agreed to that time are no longer active; and actually, I have nothing against the time we would now be reset to. But if the now-active people want to return to Saturdays, I'll go along with it; but let's please move it one tick earlier then, which was when we originally set it before the server missed a month and threw the ticks off. |
| Date | 10:05:42, March 09, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | The AMELIP are amenable to this sensible request. OOC: I'll put this to the vote sometime in the next 12hrs. If there are objections, shout now! |
| Date | 21:24:37, March 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | We will vote yes in March (which would have them held in April if passed in March). However, if it has not passed at the end of March to cause elections to be held in April, we will switch to a no vote. Our votes might or might not matter in their occurrence, depending on what other parties do. But we do oppose intentionally resetting them to May, as (OOC: due to the computer missing a tick) it would not be the (OOC: real life) time we previously agreed on. We would like for the AMELIP to agree to also change their votes away from yes to avoid resetting to May, if possible (and maybe change the name of this proposal to April ratrher than May). We are amenable to either the time we had scheduled before, or to the time they will now naturally occur, but we never liked the time they came to occur after the tick bug. OOC: Experienced players-- most people here-- will already know this most likely, but if it is to take place in April the votes needed to pass it will need to reach a majority exactly in March-- neither before not after. |
| Date | 21:28:38, March 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | We are saddened to read that the proposal still says May. |
| Date | 21:39:26, March 09, 2007 CET | From | Democratic National Party | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | We just had an election. |
| Date | 21:48:50, March 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | OOC: For what it's worth, the AMELIP is attempting to restore elections to a specific day of the real life week (Saturday here, actually Sunday morning in Europe) to which the active parties had, at the time, agreed. It was to be at the time that a passage in April would bring about. It had been (in alternating cycles) May/November, but then a tick was missed that made every month 4 hours later. We-- they and us-- tried to restore it to April/October once, to the real life time we'd agreed on, but not everyone knew just when they had to vote yes to make it happen. I don't really care. If people want it back on American Saturdays, it's okay with me. But many of the parties that agreed to it are no longer active, and if people want the schedule set up by the prior early elections, I'm also okay with that. |
| Date | 22:24:38, March 09, 2007 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | OOC The proposal says May, but the time limit is April.... |
| Date | 22:28:41, March 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | OOC: Got it. In that case we will vote in favor. |
| Date | 03:31:20, March 10, 2007 CET | From | AM Feminazi Movement | To | Debating the Call for early elections, May 2372 |
| Message | Will back this .. this time around, but can not promise to do so in the future. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 151 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 10 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 38 |
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