Stability. Every 6 months the peeps that care about security bite their nails and look at the Delegate election and hope that nobody weird gets into office.

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Stability. Every 6 months the peeps that care about security bite their nails and look at the Delegate election and hope that nobody weird gets into office.

Clearly, this is a conspiracy against a certain individual

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Stability. Every 6 months the peeps that care about security bite their nails and look at the Delegate election and hope that nobody weird gets into office.

Playing devil's advocate though, isn't this precisely why we have a two-tiered voting process?  Ideally the Assembly should screen out any..."undesirables".

Land Without Shrimp

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Ideally. Then you have the case where Islands only by a tiny margin managed to not get into the second round through the use of some cunning campaigning last year. For reference, at the time Islands was pretty new to the region and not at a point where you'd trust him to literally hold the keys to the region.

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Semi-security-obsessed military geek opinion here.

I'm actually pretty in favor of this. I'm a super-mega-huge fan of the mechanisms that TSP has, and indeed the ongoing discussion on how to improve it even better is something that I'm kind of sad we've dropped the ball a little on lately. The six-month term does pose a real security risk, since "who can run for delegate" is relatively wide open.

There isn't a ton of vetting of the pool of potential candidates. Outsiders, newcomers, anyone who passes the relatively lax test of being allowed to run for office, are capable of legally winning the mechanical keys to our region. From a security perspective, that does not sit well with me. Especially because of how the delegacy functions as an almost entirely apolitical entity within our region, handing a relative unknown, newcomer, or outsider the keys just... agh. I don't like it. So you can count me in favor of this.

I'm also in favor of additional restrictions or vetting processes on who is actually eligible to run for delegate, but I've voiced those opinions more specifically in the private halls and I will continue to do so there with regard to the other legislation package, but I don't necessarily think it's right to talk about under the public eye.

 
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I would prefer we find more and better ways to vet and qualify candidates for the seat, than to remove it from our democratic process.

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I would prefer we find more and better ways to vet and qualify candidates for the seat, than to remove it from our democratic process.

I was about to write these exact same words, but then Glen must've screenshotted my computer and posted them himself.

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This proposal still lets the bad guy comes in and fundamentally fails its primary objective. As long as there are elections, bad guys can come in. Just go with the other security reform instead, it is the best approach as of currently.

Chief Supervising Armchair

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I think NS-wise, six months is a long time for any player. Eternity is infinitely worse.

I too am in favour of proceeding with the outlines presented in the Private Halls rather than to do away with elections altogether.

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I won't pursue this further.

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