In Accordance with Article IV Section 6 of the Charter I bring the following to a vote.

Legislators may vote Aye, or Nay or they may vote to abstain. This Amendment will require a 60% majority to be considered passed.

Voting will last for 5 days and will end on September 12 at 21:30 CDT. A countdown timer is available here.

Debate on this measure may be found here.

1.3 is amended to read:

1. Electoral Commission
(3) No member of the Election Commission may run for office or hold the office of Delegate, Prime Minister, Chair of the Assembly or Cabinet Minister, during their tenure on the commission.
a. This does not prohibit a member resigning to seek office via an election or finding an accepted surrogate to oversee the election in their place.

Article 4 is amended to reflect the Chair of the Assembly:

4. The Chair of the Assembly
(1) The Chair of the Assembly shall be elected on a four month term, on the first day of August, December and March.
a. There will be a (3) three day nominations period where Legislators may signal their intent to seek office.
b. Following the nominations period, there will be a (7) seven day campaigning period.
c. There will be (3) days of voting. Legislators will cast their ballots for each position, listing their preferred candidate or choosing to abstain.

(2) The candidate with the most votes will be declared the Chair-elect by the Election Commission.

(3) The terms for the incoming Chair of the Assembly will begin seven days after the election results are posted, during which any and all election-related disputes must be settled. The outgoing Chair of the Assembly will maintain their office until then.

The Local Council is renumbered as 5. Vacancies is renumbered as 6. Separation of Powers is added as 7. A clause regarding Constitutional law is added as 8.

7. Separation of Powers
(1) It is not permitted for one person to serve as Delegate, Prime Minister, Chair of the Assembly, Permanent Justice, Local Council Member, or Cabinet Minister (as Defined by Article VI of the Charter) while occupying any other role in this clause, including any combination of said roles at the same time.
(2) It is permitted to seek election to Delegate, Prime Minister, Chair of the Assembly or Cabinet Minister while occupying an existing role mentioned above.
a. However, should the candidate successfully seek office then they must resign from their prior office before being allowed to assume responsibility for their newly elected office.
b. If they have not assumed the office within 3 days of the election results/confirmation vote, then they are considered to have forfeited the office and a special election should be called.
c. Where necessary, an announcement of resignation from their prior office will constitute a candidate assuming the office they have been duly elected to/confirmed for.
(3) Members of the Committee for Regional Security are permitted to occupy other roles so long as they do not violate the restriction in 7.1.
(4) Unless otherwise stated, Article 7 is considered to apply to all explicitly named elected and confirmed offices as detailed in this 7.1.

8. Constitutional Law
(1) The Election Act is a constitutional law, and further amendments to it must meet constitutional amendment requirements.

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(This post was last modified: 09-14-2016, 11:41 PM by Omega.)

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Aye

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With 46 Aye Votes, 3 Nay votes and 2 Abstentions, I'd like to assign 94% of the Local Council block vote to Aye.

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With 24 votes cast for Aye, 6 votes cast for nay and 5 abstentions, without the LC block vote.
The LC received 6 votes. It said they wanted these split with 94% in favour, the LC cast 5.64 votes for Aye and .36 votes for Nay.
This means the final total was 29.64-6.36-5, thus the vote passes with 82.3% in favour.

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