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Bill: Election Reform Bill of 2118
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakanian 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: July 2119
Description[?]:
| A bill to reform elections |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 48
Current: 60
Proposed: 30
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 100
Current: 600
Proposed: 250
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:23:48, September 30, 2005 CET | From |  Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Election Reform Bill of 2118 |
| Message | (I like the 30 months. That's exactly 5 days in real life. What that would do is let us have the first two days following an election to spam bills, each party either trying to gain or retain seats in Parliament. Every bill takes about a day and a third to go through Parliament. That means bills proposed on day 1 would be approved/rejected by day 3 and those proposed on day 2 would be decided on by day 4. That leaves a window of up to 3 days for debate and compromise, which should be plenty considering most parties have pretty established positions. As far as the increase in seats, I don't care. At most, I feel like that helps those parties that might get less than 1% of the vote -- under the current system, they would get no seats at all. However, because I think voting is done by percentages, with no weight given to any particular region, chanigng the maximum number of seats is largely harmless. So I urge everyone to support the FRP's amendment ^^) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 32 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "If man asks for many laws, it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous." - Will Durant |