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Bill: Voting Reform Act 4462
Details
Submitted by[?]: Neoliberal Alliance
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: August 4463
Description[?]:
| Article 1: The total number of seats in the National Assembly shall be increased to 540. Article 2: Provinces shall be split up into one (1) ridings. Article 3: The 450 seats shall be evenly split among the provinces. Article 4: A system of closed-list proportional representation shall be used to elect Members of the National Assembly in each province. Article 5: After the votes have been counted, seats shall be allocated per province per party using the formula quot = ((V)/(s+1)), where V is the total number of votes a party received and s is the number of seats that party has been allocated so far, initially 0 for all parties. The total votes cast for each party in the electoral district is divided, first by 1, then by 2, then 3, up to 90 (the number of seats per province). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 205
Current: 205
Proposed: 450
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:02:24, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The existing voting system is frankly not proportional enough, and the existing number of seats in the Assembly is inadequate for our population of nearly 100 million. Not only that, but the low number of seats means that smaller parties that could pop up in the future could have no representation at all. Our reforms would fix this, by establishing a closed-list proportional representation system using the D'Hondt method with lists at the provincial level. I hope the Assembly shares our sentiments. Emilia Jackson MNA for Isle of Sutton Rankin Inlet Leader of the Free Democrats OOC: While the game already uses the D'Hondt method with lists at the provincial level, we currently RP with single-member constituencies, as evidenced by the ridings I and other parties use my MPs/MNAs. I initially thought about keeping the existing RP system of single-member constituencies while at the same time increasing the number of members, but I feel like that would put undue pressure on the Royalists/Vesica5 because he'd have to make up a shitton of riding names for all provinces. Not only that, but it's a bit of a pain to add and relinquish ridings every election to reflect the number of seats I get per province. RPing provinces as constituencies would be less of a hassle. |
| Date | 15:13:10, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: I'd like to add that I chose 540 because, aside from being in the ballpark of what I would consider to be fair for a nation with this population, this is divisible by halves (for passage of bills and for approving cabinets), by thirds (for future constitutional amendments), and by fifths (to divide it evenly among the provinces). |
| Date | 15:27:06, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: I'd like to add that I chose 540 because, aside from being in the ballpark of what I would consider to be fair for a nation with this population, this is divisible by halves (for passage of bills and for approving cabinets), by thirds (for future constitutional amendments), and by fifths (to divide it evenly among the provinces). |
| Date | 15:48:35, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: As for the Sutton Nationalist Party and them having 'representation' in the other provinces, I was thinking they could roleplay as being an alliance of regionalist political parties fighting for further devolution. |
| Date | 15:50:34, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: Or, in the case of the SNP itself, outright independence. |
| Date | 19:33:05, September 29, 2018 CET | From | The Hutorian Party Of Socialists | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | I agree with all of this. Well done for another excellent bill free Democrats! |
| Date | 22:40:59, September 29, 2018 CET | From | The Enlightenment Party | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, You have the full support of my party on the passing of this bill. Christopher Hitchens |
| Date | 23:09:39, September 29, 2018 CET | From | Sutton Nationalist Party | Labour Party | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: Isn't the population about to drop significantly? |
| Date | 05:40:05, September 30, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: Eh it'd still make for interesting RP. |
| Date | 10:19:53, October 01, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voting Reform Act 4462 |
| Message | OOC: lowered the number of new members by about a hundred |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 122 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 83 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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