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Bill: Fair Represenataion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Republican Party (ZC)
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: February 2581
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Current: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Proposed: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:40:20, May 21, 2008 CET | From |  Saiserist League | To | Debating the Fair Represenataion Act |
| Message | We have to vote this down simply because we are strongest in the larger regions. Enacting this is not only unfair and arbitrary, but would personally cost us at least one-third of our current seats. |
| Date | 16:36:38, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Fair Represenataion Act |
| Message | "We shouldn't even bother to try and couch this bill in terms of 'fairness' or not. Because, really, every party is going to gauge how votes should be counted based purely on how they get their votes. This is a straight pragmatic matter. If their votes are concentrated largely in the bigger provinces, as ours are, we want to keep the current system. If they have a good spread across all the provinces without a strong base in any of them in particular they would favor this "equal" proposal. And if they are concentrated in the smaller provinces they would back that pseudo-proportional gibberish we had so long ago that gave undue power to the smaller provinces. Luckily, we are certain that more than one-third of the parties will have their bases in the more populous states, which is all we will need to defeat this proposal." ~Secretary Naryshkin, in private convention with Zakhar Kravchenko in the Inner League, as reported in the minutes |
| Date | 16:49:58, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Fair Represenataion Act |
| Message | OOC: We have just flipped our vote because, after doing the calculations, we have found that, despite our base being concentrated in Saqueya and Endirahad, based on the previous few election's results, this reform would actually lead to a slight seat gain on our part. Ironically, by those same calculations the Eirigi would suffer a slight seat loss. We suggest that everyone do the calculations in determining whether or not their party would be better off under this electoral system before voting on this bill (incidentally, the Federal Republicans do do marginally, but very marginally, better under an "equal representation" system) |
| Date | 17:00:57, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (ZC) | To | Debating the Fair Represenataion Act |
| Message | OOC: It does aide in having to target out set areas to gain seats as well. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 44 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 505 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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