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Bill: Quota Reform #2
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2474
Description[?]:
I have modified the quota reform bill to the lower levels that was requested. Thank you for your full support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The number of proposals a party can introduce per year (will be handed out as a monthly quota).
Old value:: 12
Current: 20
Proposed: 17
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The maximum proposal quota a party can accumulate.
Old value:: 12
Current: 50
Proposed: 20
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:42:02, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | Still too much. We would rather see fewer proposals that have been thought out carefully rather than open a floodgate of vexatious proposals. |
| Date | 12:11:19, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | Article 1 is okay. We are happy as it stands, however. Article 2 we believe would be better around the 20 mark. |
| Date | 15:06:43, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | Again - we (still) so no real reason to accumulate huge stockpiles of vote quota. It strikes us a good way to clog the political process, and that has to be bad for democracy. |
| Date | 20:11:26, October 18, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | We would support Article 1, indeed, we see no reason to limit the monthly allocation at anything less than 3 or 4, but we are concerned, as our colleagues, about the potential for storing up; we would struggle to justify much above the current value. |
| Date | 23:44:52, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | Ok, to be perfectly honest, I would like to up the quota so that a year before the election, I can submit a bill that encompasses a "Presidential Platform," if you will, of all 25 or so proposals that I will like to say changed in the nation in ONE centralized (single) bill. Now, naturally, you all might be at the position that such bill is UNNECESSARY. However, I tried that before in my other nation---Commonwealth of Rutania---and what happened was---despite that most players will just voted against the bill---it enables the modem of the Particracy game ITSELF to compute, configure, and thereby give a more detailed and accurate description of each party's political views which can have a SUBSTANTIAL influence on the elections. Again, it is not to benefit me SOLELY, but if we change the quota, then EVERYONE will have a better chance of raising their visibility and clarity of political positions to the simulated voting population. It is more of a MECHANICAL issue. Thanks again for your full support. |
| Date | 23:55:11, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | OOC: Well, I can see your point, but I have excellent visibility and perfect coherency already, and I didn't need 25 article monsters to do it. If that is your tactic, why not just use all your proposals, keep it at debate, keep adding, and send it to vote 9 months before the election? |
| Date | 00:28:02, October 19, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | OOC: it might be worth pointing out that at least four of the other parties in this nation are fairly long-term players... omnibus bills might still work somewhere like Rutania, but they are SO last year around these parts. If the CWFP want to 'vote pander', they're just going to have to do it the old fashioned way. |
| Date | 00:36:33, October 19, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Quota Reform #2 |
| Message | I have RE-modified the bill in order to match consensus. It is now at the pretty small 20 mark. Thanks again. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 237 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 429 |
| Random fact: Once approved, players should copy Cultural Protocols into a bill in the debate section of their nation page, under the title of "OOC: Cultural Protocols". This bill should include links to the passed Cultural Protocol bill and the Moderation approval. |
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