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Bill: Level Representation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate 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: February 2084
Description[?]:
| Each of our Provinces are as important as the next. Each should receive equal representation in the Assembly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Current: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Proposed: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:06:08, July 14, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | Each person in Malivia is equally important in the elections, regardless of where they live. Why should we give a person 50% more value based on where they live? |
| Date | 18:22:15, July 14, 2005 CET | From | Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | Interesting idea. However, with the current system, the Electric Mayhem keeps gaining seats. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
| Date | 00:21:02, July 15, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | Small regions have a significant advantage as it is. There's no need to give them more - if anything we should be moving in the opposite direction: one person, one vote. |
| Date | 02:28:12, July 15, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | Why should we allow the cities to control the rural areas. The cities have the population, yet have a different priority system then the rural areas. The result is the rural areas get controlled by the cities, and must adopt to their views. |
| Date | 18:29:08, July 15, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | This bill doesn't actually address the rural/urban divide though, does it? Smaller provinces aren't necessarily more rural. But in any case, for issues that affect everyone, one person one vote should be the rule. |
| Date | 07:50:16, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | you call it cities dominating the rural. i see it as the majority rule. you call it cities and rural being equal, i see it as the minority getting an advantage over the majority. |
| Date | 15:20:32, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | one person one vote SOUNDS good at first. but look at it practically. politicians only have to cater to the top 10 major markets to get elected. you wouldn't even have to visit most areas of malivia because they were rural, therefore lightly populated, therefore they have fewer votes. why would a politician spend any time in the rural areas when all the votes are in the big cities? |
| Date | 16:31:29, July 18, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Level Representation |
| Message | The point made by the EM is what we are trying to address. Since the voters are concentrated in the cities that is where the parties will concentrate their efforts. Though the LibCom is correct in that the bill is not a perfect method of addressing this issue it is the best we have available under our constitution. We do not like to see the majority overriding the rights of the miority in such a blatant fashion. Rather then purely by population we should look at different methods of distributing votes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 7 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 87 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 6 |
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