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Bill: Voting Rights Act of 3481
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberaalne Blokk
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: August 3482
Description[?]:
| Everyone has a right to vote, this right is inviolable. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote after a certain period of time.
Current: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Proposed: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:15:10, May 08, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Voting Rights Act of 3481 |
| Message | Mr. Chairman, if a criminal so blatantly violates the laws of others, perhaps his voting rights, which would have an effect on the society that the criminal tried to harm, are no so important after all. Aylin Blomgren, Justice Minister |
| Date | 12:25:38, May 08, 2013 CET | From | Liberaalne Blokk | To | Debating the Voting Rights Act of 3481 |
| Message | Mr Chairman, Us politicians give decisions that will effect lifes of public especially who are dependent on us or held captive by us,so they have a right to say what will happen to them.This eesential to democracy.Tehy even constitute a significant population thanks to your policies,so their vote wouldn't effect much and this will be a part of rehabilitation of them to society. Kale Jönnson Leader of DNV |
| Date | 12:25:53, May 08, 2013 CET | From | Liberaalne Blokk | To | Debating the Voting Rights Act of 3481 |
| Message | *They |
| Date | 12:49:56, May 08, 2013 CET | From | Rojalistiska Enhetspartiet | To | Debating the Voting Rights Act of 3481 |
| Message | Mr. Chairman, I believe that criminals ought to participate in society after they have been rehabilitated and any threat they pose to society is gone, not before. Furthermore, I don't see how it's essential to democracy that a person who has so recently stabbed society in the back by flouting its expectations in such a spectacularly reproachable way - in the end, we don't put people in prison for spitting on the pavement - is allowed, even while undergoing punishment, to 'help' determine the future direction of the country, any more than I believe that it's essential to property rights, for example, for fines to be illegal. I'm also concerned about DNV's statement about our policies creating a significant prison population. We support community-based justice, where criminals will be allowed to give back to the community which they have violated. Prison ought to be only for those who commit really serious crimes. I don't see how those policies could fill a prison, and I'm disappointed that certain political groups have taken to deliberately misrepresenting our policies. Aylin Blomgren, Justice Minister |
| Date | 12:59:08, May 08, 2013 CET | From | Liberaalne Blokk | To | Debating the Voting Rights Act of 3481 |
| Message | OOC: It should have been, they aren't constitute a significan population, other way my sentence would become meaningless. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 500 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." - Maximilien Robespierre |