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Bill: Franchise Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dranish Conservative Party
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: October 3467
Description[?]:
| Those who have offended against the law so seriously that they need to be confined in prison should not be allowed to vote whilst they are serving their prison sentence. It is only fair that if you remove yourself from society by breaking its rules then you should not have a say in how the rules of society are made. President Rafael Duvalle |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Current: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Proposed: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:19:19, April 08, 2013 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Franchise Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We support though punishments. However, taking away a citizens right to vote is one punishment too grave. We would be open to discuss the introduction of mild forms of corporal punishment, though. Heiro Fahramar, MP Human Rights spokesman |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 186 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 189 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." - Aristotle |