The Election Commision, as currently written, simply does not work. We've built a multi-person permanent institution, except none of what it is supposed to do actually happens.
As written, the EC should work something like this:
- A permament membership is created of the three members
- The roster is maintained and its membership changed as needed
- The Justice and CRS EC jointly run the election, with the Admin EC observing and approving the election
- The ECs remain on until they need to swap out
In reality for at least the past several elections it worked more like this:
- A few days before election it is noted in the CRS the need to figure out EC
- The Justice decides their EC, usually themself or Feirmont.
- The Admin decides their EC so the CRS knows who is left, usually ends up being Kris.
- The CRS tries to find the one person left that is neither in office nor doing a different EC. Usually picks Feirmont if the Justice hasn't already.
- One of more of these EC slots are occasionally not even filled.
- One EC member, usually Feirmont, successfully runs the whole election singlehandedly while the others (if applicable) end up doing nothing, simply because there isn't enough for the others to do.
- The whole thing is forgotten about until the next election happens
- Basically, usually Feirmont does everything despite not being Admin, Justice, or CRS.
We have a whole system for the but it practice none of it ever happens. The ECs are never decided far in advance because of trying to figure out who is going to run. The three ECs don't work because there isn't enough election work to require more than one person. No one ever really needs to recheck the count in pretty much any normal election. I don't really have any concrete ideas for a new sy, but the system is broken and needs to be replaced.
Two ideas I do have though:
- Make the EC one person again. To keep current elements, perhaps make them jointly appointed by the Justice and CRS.
- Add a "recount" mechanism. the only part that should need checking besides legal disputes are private votes, and I feel we can trust the admins there.
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2018, 07:03 AM by Amerion.
Edit Reason: Edited the title from 'Election Commision' to the current title
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