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Bill: Prevention of Tied Bills Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2038
Description[?]:
| (I got tired of inventing names lol) Just a simple bill to boost the number of representatives to prevent the chance of a 50-50 tie in the body, as unlikely as it may be. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 100
Current: 650
Proposed: 351
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | Any other odd number is fine, just yell them out here. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Imperial Party | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | 239 perhaps. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | We propose at least doubling the current number of seats. |
| Date | not recorded | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | An odd number is not necessary I think because when the votes are equally divided, the bill is defeated. And an odd number wont prevent ties because when a party with an odd number of seats abstains from voting, a tie is possible. |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | But I agree with increasing the number of seats in Parliament. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | Yeah, this makes a bit of sense. I'll support this. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | SDP, bear in mind though that the actual number of seats in parliament doesn't affect parliament very much, it's proportion, not number, which counts towards the sucess or failure of bills. |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | I'd suggest seats be increased to 350. |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | And perhaps we should shedule early elections as there are three new parties. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | 350 seems like a good number. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | Perhaps this should go to the vote soonish then? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | 351... |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | 351 sounds good |
| Date | not recorded | From | Imperial Party | To | Debating the Prevention of Tied Bills Act |
| Message | Yes, The Imperial Party iis in agreement with the Social Democrat Party on this one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 77 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater |