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Bill: Voluntary Identification Cards
Details
Submitted by[?]: Party for Federal Democracy
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2687
Description[?]:
| Citizens of United Jakania should have the option of receiving an identification cards for work, shopping, and other purposes. Citizens inability to access to these cards portrays lack of freedom and government control, something we do not want to be affiliated with. Please, give this chose to our citizens and show that we are a government that is not overbearing and gives our people the responsibility to make their own choices. This simple gesture could change people's opinion for the better. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: Citizens are not issued with identity cards.
Current: Citizens are not issued with identity cards.
Proposed: Citizens are issued with identity cards on a voluntary basis.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:39:38, December 24, 2008 CET | From |  Party for Federal Democracy | To | Debating the Voluntary Identification Cards |
| Message | What do the other parties think of this proposal? |
| Date | 21:38:09, December 24, 2008 CET | From | Union of Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Voluntary Identification Cards |
| Message | We don't see any reason not to support this, as long as the citizens requesting the ID cards foot the bill themselves. |
| Date | 03:41:44, December 28, 2008 CET | From | Scientific Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Voluntary Identification Cards |
| Message | On the one hand, if we don't issue ID cards, people can just get them from private companies, so it's not necessary unless there winds up being too many different ID cards to keep track of. But then, we've been on a privately-distributed ID system for so long that all we'd be doing would be adding another ID card to the pile, thus making the problem worse, not better. Unless we ban private companies from selling IDs, which would be unacceptable and strip people of the right to make their own decisions. Better not to have the government involved at all, I think. There's no way we can participate in the system without mucking it up. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 25 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 64 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 111 |
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