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Bill: Electoral Reform IX
Details
Submitted by[?]: Old School Liberal Party
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: January 2142
Description[?]:
| Yeah, I think we've passed Land Before Time now. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Current: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Proposed: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:59:08, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the Electoral Reform IX |
| Message | I will agree only if you add that the seats will be 506 or 505. |
| Date | 21:05:35, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform IX |
| Message | Nah. Too ridiculous. |
| Date | 21:09:28, November 15, 2005 CET | From |  Grand National Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform IX |
| Message | This may have been covered in past debates....but why this form of seat distribution? |
| Date | 21:35:13, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Electoral Reform IX |
| Message | Presently each region gets 60 seats, yet Hiamou (population approximately 14.6 million) has way more people than Keletia (population approximately 9.6 million). That means that every MP represents 243,000 people in Hiamou, while every Keletian MP represents only 160,000. This gives the residents of Keletia unfair voting power. Personally we'd prefer a truly proportional algorithm, but everyone has decided that the large regions have certain unnamed "advantages," completely dooming the possibility of that happening anytime soon. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 169 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 131 |
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